Re: "It's a savanna out there....."
- From: SJAB1958 <balfres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:18:18 -0700
On 8 Jul, 22:23, "rupert.morr...@xxxxxxxxx" <rupert.morr...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Jul 9, 6:43 am, UC <uraniumcommit...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 8, 3:43 am, SJAB1958 <balf...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8 Jul, 07:29, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 3, 3:27 pm, UC <uraniumcommit...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, humans evolved in the savanna, not the jungle....
Along with the lions the hyenas, the jaguars, the giant wild boars
etc.
And what kept these apemen from being eaten then?
Aquatic apes?
Now that is really funny. In with the crocodiles maybe? Or the
piranha? The parasites that live under the skin, make you blind and
dead? How about in the salt water then with the barracudas, the
sharks, the Portuguese man of war, and all the other salt water
predators. And really, how long can you stay in the water, without
getting some sort of rot? And what about physiology? What the
physiological affects of spending your days in the ocean? What sort of
evolution makes you shed your fur in the water, not grow scales webbed
feet or gills?
Missing link equals missing proof, in other words, no proof of man's
evolution from ape.
It would be far more realistic to assume man was genetically
engineered.
I suggest you do an anatomical comparison of humans and savanna
mammals, and then a comparison of humans and aquatic mammals before
you dismiss the possibility that the pre-human hominid from which we
arose may have been forced by environmental conditions to adapt to at
least a partially aquatic lifestyle.
And by the way, piranha live only in the rivers of South America and
the present theory is that the human species evolved in Africa.
Also compare your hands and feet with those of the other primates,
especially the great apes, we have slight webbing between our toes and
fingers, they do not. Also our foot with its non-opposable big toe and
paddle like arrangement is better for swimming too. And our nose
compare to theirs, if we had a typical primate nose we would not be
able to dive and swim as we do.
I could go on and add more to this, but it would be better if you did
a little googling of your own.
Finally though, if you think we were genetically engineered by a more
intelligent lifeform, that only raises the question of who genetically
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I read a book in which this aquatic theory was discussed and found it
unconvincing.
Morgan, Elaine (1990). The Scars of Evolution. Souvenir Press. ISBN
0-285-62996-4.
The Aquatic Ape theory always reminded me of the theories that
biologists* come up with in the pub. The really outrageous ones are
usually followed up with "I bet if you wrote a paper on that a few
people would fall for it". This one got itself made into a book,
presumably because the general public are significantly more gullible
than biologists.
Why do you presume the Aquatic Ape Theory is the product of an alcohol
induced state of mind?
Why don't you compare various physiological traits that humans have in
common with semi and fully aquatic mammals, and then look at how
different we are to all other land mammals.
Plus the one thing we can do, that no land mammal, not even our
nearest genetic relative can do, but that semi and fully aquatic
mammals can do.
Think about it, and see if you can guess what that one thing is.
* Other disciplines do it, too. I am one of the founders of "Weekender
Theory", which studies the combinations of positive integers n and k
such that n people drinking k beers each can arrange the empties into
an arithmetical n-gon. Clearly k has an upper bound, which we
considered the dividing line between the sensible and rational study
of Feasible Weekender Theory and those whacked-out idiots who waste
their time on Infeasible Weekender Theory.- Hide quoted text -
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