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  • Traditional PA mistakes: afro+anthropocentric prejudices

    From marc verhaegen@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 6 01:44:58 2023
    Afro+anthropocentric prejudices:

    1) Austalopiths are no human ancestors (anthropocentric prejudice), but were fossil relatives of Pan or Gorilla.
    2) Out-of-Africa is wrong (afrocentric prejudice): Pliocene Homo lived along southern Asian coasts.
    3) Miocene "apes" were no quadrupedal knuckle-walkers (anthropocentric prejudice), but swamp-forest dwellers, already "bipedal" (aquarboreal).
    4) Plio-Pleistocene human ancestors did not live in savannas, certainly not hunting (afro+anthropocentric fantasy), but have always been waterside.

    IOW, paleo-anthropology before "coastal dispersal" (aquatic ape) is at least as wrong as geology was before "plate tectonics" (continental drift).

    Google:
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169534702024904 https://www.gondwanatalks.com/l/the-waterside-hypothesis-wading-led-to-upright-walking-in-early-humans/

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  • From JTEM is my hero@21:1/5 to marc verhaegen on Thu Apr 6 19:58:35 2023
    marc verhaegen wrote:

    IOW, paleo-anthropology before "coastal dispersal" (aquatic ape) is at
    least as wrong as geology was before "plate tectonics" (continental drift).

    One that that drew me to Aquatic Ape, and savanna idiots are offended by
    it, is how there have been very many competing theories on human origins
    over the years, and many of them have rather compelling evidence in
    support of them. But they were competing -- in competition -- so they would come in and out of favor, displacing the others.

    Aquatic Ape unifies them!

    Aquatic Ape isn't in competition with any, not even savanna idiocy, but
    rather enables & explains them.

    We have these far flung populations. Yes. BECAUSE of Aquatic Ape. They
    were living waterside, consuming resources then moving on, eventually
    reaching everywhere. At the same time groups were fairly regularly peeling
    off, pushing inland.

    All these populations were different. Yes. They carved out a new niche, adapted... evolved.

    The Aquatic Ape population connected them to each other. As they moved
    around they'd come into contact with these breakaway groups. Interacting. Interbreeding. DNA was exchanged.

    Sometimes this was as simple as a new breakaway group pushing inland
    and encountering the descendant of an old breakaway group...

    There. We've already modeled and explained Multi Regionalism, Punctuated Equilibrium, hybridization & Aquatic ape. We've explained why we find Neanderthals, Denisovans -- more than one population of Denisovans, each
    as distant from each other as they are from Neanderthals. And, of course,
    Hss.

    Early breakaways were Ardi and Lucy. The last of them pushed inland from
    the coast of North & South America...

    Bipedalism stretches back as far as the fossils go, it seems, and it's most plausible origins is Aquatic Ape. Which means this whole process started
    10 million years ago or more, and was turbo charged by the arrival of the current ice age, the Quaternary Period, and the eventual glacial/interglacial cycle.





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