On Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 5:21:47 PM UTC-7, JTEM is so reasonable wrote:

Solving Tornadoes wrote:

So, the fact that hominids ate crabs means they are aquatic? Really?

Yes. Really. They were exploiting marine resources.

What if only ten percent of them exploited marine resources? And only occasionally? What would you call them then?

LOL. How about you call them the, Ten Percent and Occasionally Aquatic Ape/Littoral Ape/Waterside Ape Theory.

What if 90 percent of them regularly ate fruit, leaves, tubers, nuts, seeds, small animals, bugs, grain? Would we then call them the . . . ?

It just keeps getting more ridiculous.

Aquatic Ape Theory is a goat rope.

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Some people -- like the "Garden Habitat wingnut -- honestly have no
grasp of evolution. Or "Heritage" for that matter. They believe that if
we dig up a fossil it HAS TO BE an ancestor. But most were not.

Nearly all of them were not.

Even amongst the "Human Ancestors" who have descendants living
today, you're not related to most of them. As someone of European
descent I have ancestors that a sub Saharan African does not. And
even amongst those that you confuse as sharing an ancestor...

Native Americans carry Neanderthal DNA but for the most part it
seems like a different population of Neanderthals than western
Europeans.

The point is, and the wingnuts will never get this, I can and do have Neanderthal ancestors, but just because a fossil is a Neanderthal
does not mean it is an ancestor of mine, any more than your
grandparents have to be my grand parents...

Westerners more than likely descended from the coast population.

Lots of reasons for that. Volcanic activity being the primary.

The sea is a more stable food source, and the water moderates the
temperature some.





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On Friday, March 31, 2023 at 11:28:54 AM UTC-7, JTEM is so reasonable wrote:

Some people -- like the "Garden Habitat wingnut -- honestly have no
grasp of evolution. Or "Heritage" for that matter. They believe that if
we dig up a fossil it HAS TO BE an ancestor. But most were not.

Nearly all of them were not.

Even amongst the "Human Ancestors" who have descendants living
today, you're not related to most of them. As someone of European
descent I have ancestors that a sub Saharan African does not. And
even amongst those that you confuse as sharing an ancestor...

Native Americans carry Neanderthal DNA but for the most part it
seems like a different population of Neanderthals than western
Europeans.

The point is, and the wingnuts will never get this, I can and do have Neanderthal ancestors, but just because a fossil is a Neanderthal
does not mean it is an ancestor of mine, any more than your
grandparents have to be my grand parents...

Westerners more than likely descended from the coast population.

Lots of reasons for that. Volcanic activity being the primary.

The sea is a more stable food source, and the water moderates the temperature some.

Lots of animals eat shellfish and don't evolve hominid traits/behaviors.

Do you deny this?

James McGinn / Genius

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savanna believer:

Lots of animals eat shellfish and don't evolve hominid traits/behaviors.

Lots of animals eat antelopes and don't evolve hominid traits/behaviors. Do you deny this?

:-DDD Are all kudu runners that stupid??

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[email protected] wrote:

Lots of animals eat antelopes and don't evolve hominid traits/behaviors. Do you deny this?

:-DDD Are all kudu runners that stupid??

It's all "Pearls before swine," with this nutter.

I remember a plot in Star Trek DS9 where a computer virus/artificial intelligence
was running through the networks, crashing systems, just for the attention from the people rushing around fixing everything. This Bot is doing the same thing.

It's trying to crash the conversations.




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On Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 10:20:52 PM UTC-7, JTEM is so reasonable wrote:

[email protected] wrote:

Lots of animals eat antelopes and don't evolve hominid traits/behaviors. Do you deny this?

:-DDD Are all kudu runners that stupid??

It's all "Pearls before swine," with this nutter.

I remember a plot in Star Trek DS9 where a computer virus/artificial intelligence
was running through the networks, crashing systems, just for the attention from
the people rushing around fixing everything. This Bot is doing the same thing.

It's trying to crash the conversations.

Address the issue, you lying piece of shit. Isn't it true that a lot of animals (many of which are plainly non-aquatic) do eat shellfish.

Answer the question, you lying asshole.

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