... "People first came to Madagascar in boats about 2000 years ago. The oldest human-modified bones of extinct species appear in the fossil record at this...
Dutchman Hamel was asked by the Korean court to manufacture guns. They knew the Japanese were getting them from their European visitors, Portuguese for...
Isn't it 2,000 years ago rather than 4,000 years? If it is the latter it would beat out the Lapita evidence which dates back only to about 1500 BCE in the...
Did seafood encourage 'Out of Africa' trips? October 17 2007 at 10:28AM By Richard Ingham Paris - Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest known remains of ...
Aside from the usual savanna story telling, very nice info. (I think Homo was always more strongly attached to coasts than to savannas.) Anyone know if ochre -...
Have seen 3 of this breed in the last 2 days in northern coastal Peru, at Zorittos, Peunta Sal and Mancora villages. Took photos. The Peruvians think they are...
Iron oxide can certainly be eaten and if it was a common skin cosmetic and protector from sun and bugs, as it still is with some African groups, then it would...
The Mexican Hailess dog is less bothered by fleas as the bloodsuckers have fewer places to hide and this advantage also went to increasing hairless homonids....
... bloodsuckers have fewer places to hide and this advantage also went to increasing hairless homonids. I don't see why that would happen in only a few...
I was not suggesting that this was natural selection. People probably selected this genetic dog novelty when it arose like so many other of their variations....
Nope. Allergy sufferers prefer hairless dogs and sphynx cats. ... probably selected this genetic dog novelty when it arose like so many other of their...
GOING BACK TO YOUR EARLIER COMMENTS ABOUT HAIRLESSNESS EVOLUTION: MANY BIRDS ARE PARTIALLY HAIRLESS, ACTUALLY FEATHERLESS, ESPECIALLY THE NECK AND HEAD REGION...
do you think that ochre & ghee/cocoabutter used by so many old tribes was just a sunscreen? Maasai use it, Himba use it in Namibia (and never shower),...
According to some sources I've read, native dogs are found especially among feral dogs that number in the millions across the Americas. Even in the U.S., there...
Two things I have noticed here in Ecuador of interest to the group; 1. Fishermen still use small log rafts here to go out fishing in the morning and the...
Vulture type birds lost the neck/head feathers, other birds have special colored/blood engorged featherless skin for mating/dominance functions. There are no...
I THINK A FUTURE BOOK WITH THE IDEAS YOU RAISE WOULD MAKE GOOD READING ESPECIALLY THE PHYSIOLOGY AND THE TESTING YOU WANT TO DO. GET A PUBLISHER AND...
"Sexual selection" is non-explanatory, since it occurs in all sexually reproducing organisms, it describes ALL species traits. Unfortunately Charles Darwin...
In China, there is a Chinese Crested dog that is said to have come from Mexico or Peru. That is the confusion I ran into, when researching the Peruvian Mohawk...
Identifying Rattus species using mitochondrial DNA Authors: ROBINS, JUDITH H.1; HINGSTON, MELANIE2; MATISOO-SMITH, ELIZABETH1; ROSS, HOWARD A.2 Source:...
I was hoping you would enlarge on your ideas. Thanks. I see the feral dogs here in Peru and Ecuador terribly handicapped by skin parasites. Not only do they...
... South American monkeys tend to have very thick fur. African bonobo chimps in forest swamps much less so. Possibly the reason that feral dogs attract flea...
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