... Hello Rob... ... That may have been the case; however I would say you fleshed out somewhat the notion that it was a pathogen that was responsible for the...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 16, 2011 1:04 pm
... Yes, human features suggest our ancestors at some time ate a lot of seafood (eg, reniculisation of newborn kidneys, salt tears & sweat) and later had ...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 16, 2011 5:26 pm
JM Desilva 2011 PNAS 108 epub ahead of print A shift toward birthing relatively large infants early in human evolution It has long been argued that Hs mothers...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 16, 2011 7:21 pm
... = apiths eating sedges & other wetland plants & hard-shelled invertebrates? See work of Nikolaas van der Merwe (papyrus) & Alan Shabel (durophagy). Do...
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dons3148
Jan 18, 2011 7:46 pm
"To learn more about what role sinuses might have played in Neanderthals, Rae and his colleagues analyzed X-rays and CT scans of several Neanderthal skulls....
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 18, 2011 8:28 pm
... (from our paper M.Verhaegen, S.Munro, M.Vaneechoutte, R.Bender & N.Oser 2007 "The original econiche of the genus Homo: Open Plain or Waterside?" in ...
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Stephen Munro
smunro582000
Jan 18, 2011 10:43 pm
CC: AAT@yahoogroups.com; jlt@... From: m_verhaegen@... Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:20:51 +0100 Subject: [AAT] Re: Early hominin diets...
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Stephen Munro
smunro582000
Jan 18, 2011 10:55 pm
To: AAT@yahoogroups.com From: dons3148@... Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:45:59 +0000 Subject: [AAT] Neanderthal myths: Big Noses, Big Sinuses "To learn...
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aquape
Jan 19, 2011 12:20 am
... Thanks a lot, Chak, sorry, I seem to have missed this. Yes, you may well be right, but in that case, elephant shrews must have shrunk enormously? The...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 19, 2011 12:56 am
The Neanderthal face is not cold adapted TC Rae, T Koppe & CB Stringer 2011 JHE 60:234-9 doi 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.10.003 Many morphological features of Hn,...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 19, 2011 1:04 am
... Thanks a lot, Stephen, nice to hear from you. Pila & Biomphalaira snails live on papyrus, but I have no idea whether these snails are/were edible to...
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dons3148
Jan 19, 2011 11:43 am
... Thanks Stephen, As a flotation device it would make little sense, as they are too small relative to the size of the body, aside from which most humans have...
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dons3148
Jan 19, 2011 11:46 am
... Facial configuration is in a sense random otherwise we would all look identical, Marc. ... They effectively disproved the myth that the "large" nose of the...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 19, 2011 12:07 pm
... Some Hn had longer noses than others, but they all had longer noses & protruding midfaces than Hs. Hn didn't look more identical than Hs. ... No: they even...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 20, 2011 12:15 am
The evolution of the upright posture and gait - a review and a new synthesis C Niemitz 2010 Naturwiss.97:241-263 doi 10.1007/s00114-009-0637-3 free access...
... Irrelevant, a mishmash of theories and complete nonsense where bipedalism is concerned. --Bill...
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dons3148
Jan 20, 2011 11:20 am
... Hs noses come in all sizes and shapes (thin/fat, big/small straight/hooked), no doubt it was the same for Hn. While Hn and Hs had a common ancestor Hn was...
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Silk
silkvain
Jan 20, 2011 4:16 pm
Well mark allow me to fire that back at you.. why do you believe the negro has flaire nostrils? I shall explain.. In the savanna it was necessary because of...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 20, 2011 7:34 pm
... AFAIK every AATer says that our ancestors lived at the water edge & ate food from the land & the water = amphibious & generalist. But Niemitz claims he ...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 20, 2011 8:32 pm
The Neanderthal Nose Enigma: Why So Big? http://www.livescience.com/history/neanderthal-nose-not-cold-adapted-110114. html ... I'm reading a marvellous book:...
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dons3148
Jan 20, 2011 10:51 pm
... Marc, If you were floating in a vertical position wouldn't the head be completely out of the water? Usually when floating with the back in the water (when...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 20, 2011 11:00 pm
... Africans living in forests also have broad noses & nostrils AFAIK? ... Steatopygy in KhoiSan can have evolved for seasonal food &/or water scarcity, if...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 20, 2011 11:16 pm
The Neanderthal Nose Enigma: Why So Big? http://www.livescience.com/history/neanderthal-nose-not-cold-adapted-110114. html ... Depends on how inflated my lungs...
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Rob Dudman
rob_dudman
Jan 20, 2011 11:21 pm
... From: dons3148 To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 10:00 PM Subject: [AAT] Re: Neu5Gc (Was: Chimp the Hunter, Kills the Savanna ...
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Marc Verhaegen
aquape
Jan 21, 2011 12:07 am
... Humans have rel.the smallest mouth of all primates. Seafood does interfere with big mouths & strong biting muscles: we don't chew oysters etc. ... Not...
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Elaine Morgan
elaine@...
Jan 22, 2011 5:38 am
... From: Marc Verhaegen Newsgroups: sci.anthropology.paleo Cc: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:32 PM Subject: [AAT] Re: Niemitz...
... Elaine, I guess you mean: "The areas on which we *dis*agree are small compared to the number of things on which we think alike"? Yes, obviously. I only...
