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...
Actually, I think this paper provides further support for OOTI (Out of the Islands.) Humans do not have all of the retroviral remnants that African apes do, a...
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...
... Only Jeffrey Schwartz "The red ape" says that humans cluster more closely morphologically with orangs than with P or G. In fact, orangs cluster with P & G...
... 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...
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...
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 growth- ...
Dan: You might want to take this proposition up with Dr. Hawks, one on one, offlist! :-) Anne G ... avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database...
But it's so much more interesting to discuss/debate things more publicly, don't you think? :-) If you don't want me to post regarding such debates here, OK,...
Oh, sorry, I thought I was responding to you in your Palanthsci group. I find that such debates usually proceed much more quickly, and fruitfully, when more...
My latest response to Dale, re: Laron syndrome, archaic traits VS modern pathology, and LB1. Dan ... Dale, ... So, are you saying that early hominids...
... Another obvious reason the 'H floresiensis were only modern humans suffering from Laron syndrome' claim is unfounded, is the circular logic employed, as...
... 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...
... 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,...
Hopefully, this will clear up some misconceptions that are floating around, about H floresiensis. Dan ... syndrome, R ... individuals, ... a ... accompanied ...
The voting is finally finished. I'm happy to report that Chichen Itza, Elsa's (my wife's) family's namesake, is among the new seven. :-) Dan Here's a link to...
This appears to be relevant to the "brain as internal furnace" ideas. Dan ... " The psychologists, who studied yawning in college students, concluded that ...
... http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/\ 0,,2126328,00.html Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest James Randerson, science...
... Here are the links: http://www.primates.com/orangutans/walking.html http://www.primates.com/orangutans/walk.html If knuckle-walking is the ancestral state,...
... Dan, nobody is eating big cats. If anybody kill and eat something, then it is predators that eat herbivores. Yesterday, in a documentary I saw a meeting of...
Bloglines user AnneGilbert (avgilbert@...) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: All: They're claiming it's going to "shake...
Mario, Please read the article carefully. These Bili apes were observed, specifically and recently, eating a leopard. And there are many eyewitness accounts...
... I've read the article carefully. I think I even watched a documentary about completly same situation, where one scientiest (probably this Mr. Hicks) is...
... Ah! This appears to be consistent with my hypothesis/scenario, of bipedalism evolving before the gibbon-orangutan split, and in the absence of significant...
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