Brachiation
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Jack D.Barnes4:42pm #74060
Yes Francesca,
I asked for clarification on body plan. What adaptations would be ascribed to those rivers and lakes? I don’t see any other than laryngeal throat sacs. Hands and feet decidedly for tree climbing and suspension, 100% not for swimming.
Seems to me that Hylobate body plan was built on swinging under the branch at insanely high speeds and then precision tightrope walking the branch in a bipedal manor. It created a doubling of brain genes from 25 to 50. Created a 5th new section of the
mammalian backbone.
The question is What was the motivation to go 50kmh through the trees?!? There are no predators at that fast. They must have been competing with each other, mating, racing to food sources. We’re the trees in SE Asia of different structure than
Africa or South America?
Huge forest canopies with lots of rain, assuredly would be surrounded by swamps, lakes and rivers by coincidence.
-Jack
JB is closer to reality than MV's nonsense, but he doesn't realize hominoid bipedal & bimanual reach advantage over qpal monkeys.
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