Hi Rob, From your words: Yes, they needed to know where to find drinking-water while they were active on the savanna and they needed to learn how to avoid...
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Ken Moore
ken@...
Oct 1, 2007 8:35 am
... Please will one of you explain how definition of a genus differs from an agreed but arbitrary choice of a branching point on a phylogenetic tree?...
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DDeden
alas_my_loves
Oct 1, 2007 5:43 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070930/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologyneanderthals_070930171900;_ylt=AuZiO8AtGWRseoRkUqnS9TAE1vAI 40ka neandertals in western Siberia...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Oct 1, 2007 6:11 pm
... It's a definition: before the split we have the HP common branch, after the split we have the H & the P branch. Simple, no? But of course H immediately ...
Hi Rob, Do you think that long head hair, abundant SC fat, reduced body hair and infant knee crawling were naturally selected in Homo on the Ethiopian...
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DDeden
alas_my_loves
Oct 1, 2007 7:14 pm
Did apes evolve from humans? Sudden abrupt changes in which entirely new types of organisms come into existence almost instantaneously do not fit the model of...
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bender_renato
Oct 1, 2007 7:22 pm
Some people think they are original, but they are just repeating bad ideas of other scientists. "Man do not evolve from apes, but apes evolve from man" is...
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Marc Verhaegen
hydropith
Oct 1, 2007 7:27 pm
http://www.aquaticape.org/verhaegen.html I had a short look at this. I don't know what biased hair-splitter (someone who believes he's producing *Science*: he...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Oct 1, 2007 7:38 pm
... Well, in several instances Westenhöfer was right here, I wouldn't call it bad ideas (wrong perhaps, but not bad): gr.apes seem to be derived in many ...
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m3dodds
Oct 1, 2007 7:43 pm
... As they say... Ken. "King Philip cried out for good soup!" Kingdom > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species Genus - Homo > Species - Sapiens ...
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m3dodds
Oct 1, 2007 8:24 pm
... Its a murky ( messy ) definition, Marc. ... Fossils are physical evidence, the rest is interpretation. ... What's wrong with... Genus > Species ?...
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DDeden
alas_my_loves
Oct 1, 2007 8:32 pm
...Because a theory is a complex of statements, it usually does not stand or fall on the basis of a single critical test (as simple hypotheses often do)....
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Marc Verhaegen
hydropith
Oct 1, 2007 9:03 pm
... To the contrary: very clear & simple: HP = H + P. ... To the contrary: DNA is physical evidence. Fossils are fragmentary parts without soft tissues of...
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DDeden
alas_my_loves
Oct 1, 2007 9:04 pm
Renato, both man->ape and ape->man are dependent on definition. Both humans and all extant apes derive from the LCA Hominoid. DD...
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Marc Verhaegen
hydropith
Oct 1, 2007 9:18 pm
Op 01-10-2007 22:07, in artikel 2sk2g3t36r04eed3i953t856mu1pom1b51@..., ... Penguins standing on 2 legs + tail. ... Yes, of course. The problem here is:...
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bender_renato
Oct 1, 2007 9:22 pm
The problem with theories trying to make apes developing from hominids are evident: there are a lot of hominids features not present in apes (hairlessness,...
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bender_renato
Oct 1, 2007 9:24 pm
Marc, see please my commentary to DDedens post below. RBender ... call it ... in many ... hairs, ... lengthening of ... come ... 288 ... Aaron ... Mayr - ... ...
Op 01-10-2007 22:22, in artikel nol2g3p9s2utmq3s90riuluues89c6mjds@..., ... Indeed. ... 1 independent event is well possible, eg, it's well possible that...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Oct 1, 2007 9:57 pm
... Trying?? P & G *are* hominids. Hominid=HPG. Pongid=Po. ... Not present in apes?? eg, Afr.apes are born naked & with humanlike flat feet, and KWing is...
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Marc Verhaegen
hydropith
Oct 1, 2007 10:05 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i86Ah2tvnFU...
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DDeden
alas_my_loves
Oct 1, 2007 10:51 pm
Once more, both apes and humans derive from hominoids. Simple. DD...
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Marc Verhaegen
hydropith
Oct 1, 2007 10:57 pm
A New Model for the Origin of Bipedality Hum.Evol.21:241-250 EJ Bowers 2007 Scholars have long thought that bipedality evolved gradually in response to the...
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Marc Verhaegen
hydropith
Oct 1, 2007 11:02 pm
Who has read Roger Wescott's paper "Hominid uprightness and primate display" Am.Anthrop.69:78, 1967? --Marc...
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DDeden
alas_my_loves
Oct 1, 2007 11:13 pm
... independently in ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_J._Futuyma) ... http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110482830/ABSTRACT ... ...
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DDeden
alas_my_loves
Oct 1, 2007 11:28 pm
... Nice long tail to counterbalance, like a kangaroo or T rex. It's funny how the savannaphiles reacted to the air sac info. Insults and ignorance, no...
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Marc Verhaegen
hydropith
Oct 2, 2007 12:07 am
... To s.a.p? How can they (who?) do that, DD? Then why don't they block Olson cs.? --Marc...
