Rocksolid Light

News from da outaworlds

mail  files  register  groups  login

Message-ID:  

BOFH excuse #135: You put the disk in upside down.

sci / sci.bio.ecology / savanna nonsense

SubjectAuthor
o savanna nonsensemarc verhaegen

1
Subject: savanna nonsense
From: marc verhaegen
Newsgroups: sci.bio.ecology
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:14 UTC
X-Received: by 2002:a05:622a:1c4:b0:3ef:499a:dd97 with SMTP id t4-20020a05622a01c400b003ef499add97mr7647363qtw.3.1682514877888;
Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:14:37 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 2002:aca:3c09:0:b0:38d:ede4:3773 with SMTP id
j9-20020aca3c09000000b0038dede43773mr4541138oia.2.1682514877592; Wed, 26 Apr
2023 06:14:37 -0700 (PDT)
Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: sci.bio.ecology
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:14:37 -0700 (PDT)
Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:a03f:8dee:f400:fd35:9b5d:d485:d101;
posting-account=od9E6wkAAADQ0Qm7G0889JKn_DjHJ-bA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:a03f:8dee:f400:fd35:9b5d:d485:d101
User-Agent: G2/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <46576fc5-b688-43ca-b5aa-cb783d9f2f6cn@googlegroups.com>
Subject: savanna nonsense
From: littoral.homo@gmail.com (marc verhaegen)
Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:14:37 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
View all headers

Traditional paleo-anthropologists short-sightedly "reason" illogically like this: "Pan & Gorilla are African, quadrupedal & forest-dwelling, but Homo is bipedal outside the forest, "hence" we became BP when we left the forest for (in Africa!) the savanna".
Egocentric nonsense, of course (who prefers to find a gorilla ancestor rather than a human ancestor??):
- Plio-Pleistocene "hominin" fossils in Africa (although BP - but all early apes were BP, google "aquarboreal") much more resemble Pan or Gorilla than Homo.
- Our Pliocene ancestors were not even in Africa (e.g. we lack Pliocene African retrovirus, see Benveniste 1976, Yohn 2005) - most likely following S.Asian coasts.
- Early-Miocene Hominoidea ("apes") were already BP (in swamp forests, google "aquarboreal"), and not only humans but also gibbons & siamangs are still BP.
- Early Homo is found as far as Java (H.erectus) & even Flores (18 km oversea).
- Etc.
We've always been waterside, never savanna, e.g. https://www.gondwanatalks.com/l/the-waterside-hypothesis-wading-led-to-upright-walking-in-early-humans/

1

rocksolid light 0.9.8
clearnet tor