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:-) Thanks a lot for this.
It once more proves that H.erectus were no endurance-runners (idiotic hypothesis IMO), but simply followed the coasts as far as Java & later Flores, frequently diving for shellfish etc.:
-stone tool use = shellfish, cf. sea-otter,
-brain enlargement: seafood=brainfood (DHA etc.), cf. Pinnipedia & Odontoceti, -fossilization in coastal plains, e.g. Mojokerto etc.,
-shell engravings, Trinil, google "Joordens Munro",
-pachy-osteo-sclerosis = uniquely seen in show+shallow diving tetrapods (salt water),
-island colonizations,
-broad body, flaring ilia, flat feet, big nose, large lungs,
-platycephaly, platypelloidy, platymeria,
-etc.etc.
The evidence is overwhelming:
it's only a matter of time when the coastal dispersal theory of Homo (vs. apes-australopiths) will be generally accented!
Google
"coastal dispersal Pleistocene Homo PPT".
Only incredible idiots believe their Pleistocene ancestors ran after antelopes!
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