From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 01:56:01 MDT
"Terry W. Colvin" FWD'd
Thanks for posting this Terry - the fellow has me convinced that
something mighty strange took place with our ancestors!
I had never thought of walking as being an uneconomical way of getting
around in comparison to our four-legged friends. So, how long ago is it
estimated that we started using horses, camels, elephants etc to
transport us?
Kelly
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From: "Steve Beacock" wrote:
> pondering why there are no aquatic apes,
> other mammals successfully adapted to life in the water, perhaps we have
> lost our ability to adapt, maybe given up for the ability to adapt our
> environment to us
Virtually everything you could ever want to know about the "aquatic ape
theory" is at < http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat.html >.
Guy
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> pondering why there are no aquatic apes,
There are some monkies that spend a lot of time in the water, according to
nature doccos, anyway. Proboscis monkeys do, I think - ie the ones with the
big floppy noses that look like the late Walter Matthau.
Martin
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Steve B pondered:
>pondering why there are no aquatic apes,
Sanderson thought there were, didn't he? "Kelpies"; giant sea-living
humans who hung out near kelp beds?
Rachel
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> 2. Geography. This ancient proto-human was found quite far from the "usual"
> places you would expect to find such species. It therefore seems more
> likely that hominids were a fairly widespread class of animal, not
> restricted to as narrow a range as we thought. It definitely opens the
> possibility that the reason we've only found hominid remains in the Rift
> region is because that's the only place we've looked hard.
More specifically, one of the central beliefs in anthropology was what was
called the "East side story", that is, the central reason for divergence
between apes and humans was the development of the Great Rift Valley. When
the valley became impassible the common ancestors of chimps etc found
themselves on the western side, and the ancestors of the humans were on the
east, which created the conditions of reproductive isolation needed for the
separate evolutionary paths to develop. Obviously if there are hominids in
the West 7 million years ago that theory goes out the window.
Martin
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