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  • Incredibly stupid mistakes in traditional paleo-anthropology

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 15 07:16:20 2023
    e.g.
    - Australopiths have 0 to do with Homo: comparative anatomy shows they were fossil relatives of Pan (all S.African apiths) or Gorilla (large E.Africa apiths).
    - Aquarboreal: Mio-Pliocene Hominoidea were aquarboreal (aqua=water, arbor=tree): they waded already fully upright=bipedally + climbed arms overhead in swamp forests.
    - Savanna running: No hominid ever ran over African savannas, hunting antelopes or something else... :-DDD
    - Pliocene Homo was not even in Africa (retroviral DNA), they simply followed S.Asian coasts -> Java early-Pleist.H.erectus.

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