Drinking at seashores. The idea that since humans can't drink saltwater, so our ancestors must not have spent much time in the sea, is rather odd, since the...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 1:41 am
http://remotecentral.blogspot.com/2009/07/basketry-of-present-and-prehistory.html Ancient basketry, nets (1st part is about AmerIndian craft, next is Czech...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 2:08 am
http://zinjanthropus.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/the-big-hole-in-your-head/ Gibbons have a heavier head relative to their body weight than chimps or even humans,...
http://www.rickliebling.com/2009/07/27/social-media-like-a-day-at-the-community-\ pool/ Pool stratification by activity/age vertical apneic high diver ...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 4:46 am
http://www.gapingvoid.com/ Share, trade social object...
... Is it, DD? Slow diving is/was mostly for sessile prey: shellfish = high in salt (isotonic)? ... Cetaceans don't sweat, but pinnipeds do (at least some, eg,...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Aug 3, 2009 6:57 am
... Thanks, DD. P-F.Puech described resemblances in molar micro-wear between A.afarensis & mountain-beavers & capibaras: polished by wet plants (aquatic or ...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 7:41 am
... Shellfish vary in salinity, there are some high in salt, others much less so, per an article on Pacific coast oyster species I just read. I don't know if...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 9:24 am
Jörg Fröbisch and Robert R. Reisz (2009). The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems...
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m3dodds
Aug 3, 2009 9:46 am
... DD, If you were to drink a litre of seawater in one day, how much 'salt' would you actually ingest? (if somehow you managed to swallow more than a...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Aug 3, 2009 11:03 am
Orangutans employ unique strategies to control branch flexibility SKS Thorpe, R Holder & RH Crompton 2009 PNAS Orangutans are the largest habitually arboreal...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 6:05 pm
Strange Science: history of paleontology, fossils as mysterious curios http://www.strangescience.net/? In 1619, Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini was burned...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 6:10 pm
... Why? Perhaps a few ounces, for mineral salts? how...
"70,000 to one" by Quenton Reynolds about a Mr. Manuel, a US pilot shot doen in WWII over the island of New Britain (near Papua). P 105 Many years before the...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 9:25 pm
"Slow diving is/was mostly for sessile prey" I think that is generally true for animals which lack constructed tools, such as probing-jabbing spears and...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Aug 3, 2009 9:41 pm
... When an animal is walking around doing whatever that particular animal does for a living, its eyes are usually looking forward, toward the horizon. The ...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Aug 3, 2009 10:27 pm
... Dolphins have very lightly built bones, He was the opposite. Heavy = slow, almost by definition. (Sea otters have +-heavy limb bones, but don't carry SC...
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alas_my_loves
Aug 3, 2009 10:29 pm
... Because their worst predator is falcons from above. They typically sit perched upright, are diurnal arboreal omnivores with relatively large brain and...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Aug 3, 2009 10:42 pm
... Thanks a lot, DD, for what audience did Elaine speak? what is TED? ... http://www.ted.com/talks/elaine_morgan_says_we_evolved_from_aquatic_apes.html ...
