I've submitted a slightly different version of that post to the Paleoanthro group, as well. Here's a paragraph I added at the end: "One possible explanation...
Bipedal Pan (Chimpanzee/Bonobo) and Gorilla. Already in our group's photo album, but I thought I'd pass on this link, for those who may have missed it. Dan ...
Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo This excerpt may be of particular interest, re: OOTI (longer legs, bipedal about 25% of the time,...
This paper provides further evidence for OOTI (Out of the Islands.) Humans do not have all of the retroviral remnants that African apes do, a condition...
More on this subject (Chimpanzee retroviruses, insular environment,) quoted below. Note, regarding the human-orangutan relationship, I do *not* think we are...
A clarifying note: Among other things (discussed in my other posts,) OOTI (Out of the Islands) can explain not only the why humans cluster more closely, ...
Perhaps one reason that Komodo dragons still survive in SE Asia, while the other large reptilian predators of the region all went extinct (perhaps largely due...
... Op 05-06-2007 10:00, paleoanthropology@yahoogroups.com ... at ... thoroughly. ... up ... chimpanzees. ... Marc ... All ... OK, thanks. ... been ... Pongid...
... Marc, You're very welcome. I apologize for my late reply; I hadn't been active in this group until recently. Now I have a lot of catching up to do, it...
... Yes, but OOTI predicts more than that, including that the ancestors of gorillas and chimps were also in the insular environment, prior to migrating to...
... It suggests some sort of insular environment, or isolation, which may have been the SE Asian islands, or may have been elsewhere. Without strict...
... Marc, Interesting. I'll give this some more thought, before responding. Dan ... each ... other. ... in ... hylobatids ... likely also ... approaching ... ...
... Paul, Thanks. That (re: Megalania) makes sense to me. Dan ... survived relatively unmolested. Given the speed with which ancestral aborigines in...
Here are the links: HIV susceptibility locus protects against an extinct virus (Discusses a virus that chimps and gorillas got, but humans evidently didn't,...
It appears that nobody has yet answered Bob's question, re: Laron syndrome and wrist morphology. (He first posed the question, in the Paleoanthro group, on...
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070702/full/070702-7.html Published online: 4 July 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070702-7 Smart apes spit Orang-utans use water to...
Note, a predilection for solving abstract problems (exerting indirect influence, as in this experiment,) is consistent with OOTI. If the ancestors of...
I'd like to note that, with at least 57 different mutations able to cause what's called "Laron syndrome," what we're dealing with is a quite general...
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0702-douc.html Researchers find large population of extremely rare monkey mongabay.com July 2, 2007 A team of scientists from WWF...
... Dale, I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. As I explained, "Laron syndrome" is actually any of of at least 57 different mutations, meaning that...
... Hello Paul, ... no ... deadly ... harass it. Your mammalian muscles will keep running rings round it long after its reptilian ones have ground to a...
... wrote: To clarify: As I explained, "Laron syndrome" is actually any of of at least 57 different mutations, meaning that we're dealing with a general ...
... Paul, My mistake, I now see that you weren't referring to branch walking. I don't think that quadrupedalism with some meerkat-like standing would ...
... Thanks, Mario. You make some interesting points. There is one thing you may have missed, though, about H floresiensis. The H floresiensis specimens were...
... One problem with that: We're talking about whole families of viral remnants, not just a single remnant from a single morph of a virus. Over time, as...
... Dale, ... So, are you saying that early hominids (Australopiths, for instance,) had an entirely different way of creating many of the same physiological...
Another obvious reason the 'H floresiensis were only modern humans suffering from Laron syndrome' claim is unfounded, is the circular logic employed, as well...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070705/sc_afp/ussciencevolcanoasia_\ 070705191636 Toba mega-eruption 70,000 years ago, not so catastrophic: study Thu Jul 5, 3:16...
... Dale, You have obviously totally misunderstood what I have said, and continue to do so, even after I have tried to point it out quite clearly. Nowhere...
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