Op zaterdag 25 maart 2023 om 01:19:52 UTC+1 schreef JTEM:
marc verhaegen wrote:
Can a whole science be so wrong??
There are many examples of exactly that. https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/phrenology
I took those photos, left the store... went back and bought it.
Yes, I spent $20 on pseudo science!
:-(
-- Yes: we've seen this in geology with "plate tectonics".
-- Now we see this in paleo-anthropology with "coastal dispersal".
Many paleo-anthropologists are incredibly afro- & anthropo-centrically biased:
The status quo is, the mainstream.
Can't they use their brain a bit??
-- Homo didn't come from Africa, but from S-Asia,
It's complicated. But, yes, "They fell out of a tree, landed on a savanna and ran down an antelope" is stupid.
-- apiths were no human ancestors, but fossil relatives of Gorilla or Pan.
We undoubtedly share a common ancestor.
Homo/Pan 6-5 Ma, HP/Gorilla 8-7 Ma,
-northern Rift: E.Afr.apiths=Gorilla,
-southern Rift: S.Afr.apiths=Pan,
-S.Asian coasts: Plio-Pleist.Homo: H.erectus: Mojokerto etc.
-All Miocene Hominoidea were bipedal (today only hylobatids & humans).
Certainly looking that way.
-Gorilla-Homo-Pan ancestors waded-climbed bipedally in Red Sea swamp forests.
Did they though?
Of course!
-We were no BP runners, but BP waders-climbers in swamp forests.
Maybe. I prefer the beach model.
That was much later.
-- Primates=arboreal,
-- H.erectus=pachyosteosclerosis=shallow-diving=(semi)aquatic.
Evolution is gradual, IOW, the intermediate phase was tree+water=aquarboreal.
I proposed this phase a few years before the wading gorillas of Ndoki were discovered.
:-) Now we know wading bonobos, wading lowland-gorillas, wading orangutans...
-Africa = rain-forest + savanna, but there was no "Out of Africa".
I think it's because of Toba that we say "Out of Africa."
Afrocentrism: they reason: our nearest relatives (P+G) live in Africa, therefore we come from there.
See my book p.299-300:
late-Miocene HPG-LCA lived in swamp forests in the (incipient) Red Sea, -Gorilla 8-7 Ma followed the (incipient) N-Rift,
-when the red Sea opened into the Gulf (Francesa Mansfield: 5.33 Ma?) --Pliocene Pan went right ->E.Afr.coast,
--Pliocene Homo went left ->S.Asian coast.
But why exactly did (early-Pleist.?) Homo dive more+more? climate + more shellfish?? ...?
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