NZ study cracks origin of English language 01.12.2003 By ANGELA GREGORY Auckland University researchers have stunned academics worldwide by tracing the origins...
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Robin Whittle
Robin_Whittle
Oct 29, 2004 6:18 am
Julian, your theory, http://julianodea.blogspot.com , as I understand it, is that rainforest dwellers are deficient in vitamin D due to lack of sunlight, and...
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Carmi Turchick
tribalypredi...
Oct 29, 2004 7:22 am
I have not seen anything on this paper posted here, and it seems to be quite informative on the topic of altruism. Conflict over Male Parentage in Social...
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Jack Parsons
jackparsons@...
Oct 29, 2004 9:05 am
Robin, Could your missing engineering principle be Haldane's 'Square-cube law'?. See his essay, 'On being the right size', or the brief treatment in my...
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Julian
jdodeaus
Oct 29, 2004 10:14 am
... Julian O'Dea: Thanks for your queries. I think there are two possible reasons why Pygmies and Negritos don't have fairer skin. One is that reduced skeletal...
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O Gorman, Rick
rickogorman
Oct 29, 2004 11:57 am
... I don't think this is an option (and I imagine the researchers considered this)--they made a point of noting that the new finds at Flores had many archaic...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Oct 29, 2004 11:57 am
I don't wish to give an opinion on Julian's hypothesis, but I feel that one of Robin's criticisms needs commenting on. ... I feel that this explanation for...
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Robin Whittle
Robin_Whittle
Oct 29, 2004 11:57 am
Thanks Jack. Googling "Square-cube law" lead me to: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/zy/0301/Topic4/Topic4.html Here is the principle I was trying to...
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Julian
jdodeaus
Oct 29, 2004 8:40 pm
Steven D'Aprano: I feel that this explanation for fair-skinned people living towards the poles is a Just-So story and doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The major ...
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Robin Whittle
Robin_Whittle
Oct 29, 2004 8:41 pm
Here is part of an article in today's Age, which was originally in the Guardian. - Robin Our not so distant relative Henry Gee October 28 2004 ...
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Julian
jdodeaus
Oct 29, 2004 8:43 pm
... Rick O'Gorman: I don't think this is an option (and I imagine the researchers considered this)--they made a point of noting that the new finds at Flores...
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John Goodrum
johntgoodrum
Oct 29, 2004 8:49 pm
... Greetings Julian - The phenomenon of island dwarfing seems to be a more general feature among mammals, and not one that depends on the heavy canopy of ...
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artemistroy
Oct 29, 2004 8:52 pm
The Flores "Hobbits" appear to be closer to the apiths than to either H. erectus or H. sapiens sapiens. This assumes that some apiths survived, interbred with...
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Andy Morley
andy_morleyuk
Oct 29, 2004 9:11 pm
... [...] ... There was a study done recently, and I'm afraid that I can't tell you when, by whom or why, but it proved that it was possible to go from...
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Oct 29, 2004 9:12 pm
... It no doubt will be debated. Current money is on H. erectus. Cranial capacity of 380cc is not compatible with H. sapiens ancestry, unless this individual...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 29, 2004 9:28 pm
RE: [evol-psych] Attempting to explain the small size of HMark Flinn It no doubt will be debated. Current money is on H. erectus. Cranial capacity of 380cc...
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Mark Flinn
FlinnM@...
Oct 29, 2004 10:09 pm
Encephalization quotients (controlling for body mass) are not an easy solution. Relations among cognitive abilities, brain mass, and body mass do not follow...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Oct 30, 2004 2:02 am
... Whichever way you look at it, the standard explanation for skin colour is terribly inconsistant. The corrolation between skin colour and latitude really...
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TWatk75857@...
Oct 30, 2004 2:03 am
Come on, folks. Do we have to suffer any more of these rambling speculations about the origins of animal domestication? They only demonstrate that the ...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 30, 2004 4:29 am
Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise Bruce Bower Big evolutionary insights sometimes come in little packages. Witness the...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 30, 2004 12:19 pm
Trevor Watkins: Come on, folks. Do we have to suffer any more of these rambling speculations about the origins of animal domestication? They only demonstrate...
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fredappleyard
Oct 30, 2004 9:56 pm
. Dolphins have evolved surprisingly big brains over the last 47 million years, according to the largest fossil study ever done on the animals. The growth -...
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Steven D'Aprano
dippyd
Oct 30, 2004 9:57 pm
With a sinking heart, I feel that this conversation is exceedingly unproductive. So, rather than a line-by-line response to Leif's emails, I'll just pick out...
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artemispub
artemistroy
Oct 31, 2004 5:29 am
New support for the existence and significance of group, or racial, differences in medicine comes from several contributors to the current [i]Nature...
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OBi Fox
silvanhold
Oct 31, 2004 6:20 am
If there is, a study indicating that these changes can occur in 4 generations I would grateful to anyone who could provide the citations. This is an area I've...
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George Parrish
upset@...
Oct 31, 2004 9:04 pm
You didn't mention that it seems likely that wolves attracted to human garbage dumps were a self selected population genetically pre-disposed to submissive...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 31, 2004 9:06 pm
Samoa Worm Sperm Spawns Annual Fiesta Karin Muller for National Geographic News October 29, 2004 It's nearly midnight on the Pacific island of Samoa. Several...
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TWatk75857@...
Oct 31, 2004 9:07 pm
In response to my intervention, recommending a couple of informative books, Robert Stonejek wrote: "Being well versed in this area, and clearly having read the...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_k_stonjek
Oct 31, 2004 9:32 pm
The Sunday Times October 31, 2004 Richard Dawkins, leading evolutionary scientist, is not only excited by the evidence of a race of little people, he believes...
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Julian
jdodeaus
Nov 1, 2004 7:10 am
Here are just a few replies to comments and a remark on the small size of the Flores hominid's brain. It was suggested that the Flores hominid has archaic...
