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  far back as we can go, we find humans eating shellfish         


Author: Marc Verhaegen
Date: Aug 19, 2008 09:58

I noticed a pro-AAT comment at the Smithsonian website. I don't recognize
the name, but in addition to AAT, the writer supports another concept I am
glad to see catching on:

In comments about the Pinnacle Point site:

"Ah, those pesky shellfish. It seems that as far back as we can go, we find
humans eating shellfish. The field ponders the question of precisely when
humans began eating shellfish and what the effect of that was upon our
population. Perhaps this is the time to look again at Occam's Razor. Occam's
Razor says the simplest explanation is that we've always eaten shellfish,
that it's what separates us from the other primates...

...Some further ponderables: evolution only happens where possible, not
where necessary; which is a polite way of saying that a species cannot
evolve its way out of an ecological crisis....

...Cheers. See you at the beach, Johan...Posted by Johan Mathiesen on June
25,2008 | 09:07PM"

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/human-migration.html?c=y&p
age=3

It does my heart good.

Michael Burns
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  Living Martian life was found by atomic force microscope.         


Author: Lin Liangtai
Date: Aug 19, 2008 06:31

Living Martian life was found by atomic force microscope.

A soil particle was imaged by the atomic force microscope on board
Phoenix Mars Lander. NASA says the particle is red, rounded, “about” 1-
micrometer across.The dust particle turns out to be a living
halophile. It is a halophile as explained in the following earlier
posts (Ref. 1, Ref. 2). It is living because it is still red and its
elliptical cell body is still unbroken. If it was dead, it could not
maintain its red color and an integral cell body.

Ref. 1:
http://groups.google.com.tw/group/first-human-neurons/browse_thread/thread/82c53...#

Ref. 2:
http://groups.google.com.tw/group/first-human-neurons/browse_thread/thread/9da1a...#

Ref. 3: Website information on Earthly halophile:
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/H/halophile.html
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  The Source of Life: Water         


Author: Hamady
Date: Aug 19, 2008 05:47

Water is a basic condition for life, but it is entirely absent from
the solar system's 63 other celestial bodies. However, most of our
planet is covered with water. Oceans and seas make up three fourths of
the Earth's surface while the land itself contains countless numbers
of rivers and lakes. The snow and ice on the summits of lofty
mountains is water in its frozen form. A substantial part of the
earth's water is in the sky: every cloud contains thousands--sometimes
millions-of tons of water in the form of vapor. From time to time some
of this water vapor turns into drops of liquid and falls to the
ground: in other words, it rains. Even the air you're breathing now
contains a certain amount of water vapor.

The rains, the seas, rivers, streams, the oceans, drinkable water that
flows when you turn on a faucet… People are so used to the existence
of water that they probably never think about the fact that a major
part of the Earth's surface -indeed, most of it- is covered with
water. However, what is singularly important here is that, among all
known celestial bodies, only the Earth provides drinkable water.

The Astonishing Features of Water
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  2008 AAH August Scorecard         


Author: rmacfarl
Date: Aug 19, 2008 01:28

So far this month Marc & his hanger-on have been hanging round SAP
like the proverbial bad smell as per usual, doing their best to get
rises out of us with their risable "evidence" for AAH. So just what
does pass for AAH evidence in 2008? Well, in August it's been:

- inability to understand the difference between a beaver
(unquestionably semi-aquatic) and a mountain-beaver (an unrelated, non-
aquatic rodent);
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.anthropology.paleo/browse_frm/thread/b268f892...#

- opinion pieces which turn out not even to have appeared in major
newspapers, but instead have been posted on the internet by alien-
inspired cartoonists from Queensland (the Australian equivalent of UFO
hunters from Mississipi);
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.anthropology.paleo/browse_frm/thread/91caedc3...#

... and...

- regurgitated, discredited misinformation about eccrine sweating,
which even the high priestess of AAH, Elaine Morgan, repudiated over a
decade ago.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.anthropology.paleo/browse_frm/thread/f68b22b0...#7789f5ecde2946b5

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
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  Re: evading SFs         


Author: Rick Wagler
Date: Aug 18, 2008 15:44

"Marc Verhaegen" wrote in message
news:C4CFC387.138C7%%m_verhaegen@skynet.be...
>>>>> do you subscribe that a creature that develops a bad olfaction, thick
>>>>> fat
>>>>> layers & a sodium & water-wasting cooling system adapts to the
>>>>> savanna??
>
>>>> I recognize the description as that of a late 20th century redneck
>>>> couch potato with severe overweight wearing a dirty T-shirt on a hot
>>>> and humid Alabama summerday. The answer is no.
>>>> But speak about a well-acclimatized, lean, long-limbed and slender
>>>> nilotic type such as this
>>>> Dinkahttp://web.inter.nl.net/users/G.Hanenburg/Dinka.jpg, the answer is
>>>> yes.
>
>>> evasion noted
>
>> Yes, a typical evasion.
>> The poor man, I guess a fat redneck with a dirty T-shirt, fails to
>> answer: ...
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  evading SFs         


Author: Marc Verhaegen
Date: Aug 18, 2008 15:25

>>>> do you subscribe that a creature that develops a bad olfaction, thick fat
>>>> layers & a sodium & water-wasting cooling system adapts to the savanna??
>>> I recognize the description as that of a late 20th century redneck
>>> couch potato with severe overweight wearing a dirty T-shirt on a hot
>>> and humid Alabama summerday. The answer is no.
>>> But speak about a well-acclimatized, lean, long-limbed and slender
>>> nilotic type such as this
>>> Dinkahttp://web.inter.nl.net/users/G.Hanenburg/Dinka.jpg, the answer is
>>> yes.
>> evasion noted
> Yes, a typical evasion.
> The poor man, I guess a fat redneck with a dirty T-shirt, fails to answer:
> - the poor olfaction of humans,
> - the water + sodium wasting cooling system,
> - that his "lean...
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  Runners live longer, swimmers eaten by sharks         


Author: Lee Olsen
Date: Aug 18, 2008 08:28

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=227913&src=120

No wonder wetloons like Mario run instead of swim.
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  Child buried on swan wing ...         


Author: taragannon41
Date: Aug 18, 2008 07:55

I came across an article a while back about a paleo human burial found
with the skeleton of a child buried on a swan wing. Does anyone know
about this article or where I might find an image of this burial. I
am also interested in all similar things on the burial of children
with bits and pieces of wild nature (flowers, wild animals, etc – no
domestic animals).
Any help would be much appreciated!
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  Life found on Mars: atomic force microscopy of Phoenix reveals a halophile         


Author: Lin Liangtai
Date: Aug 18, 2008 02:52

Life found on Mars: atomic force microscopy of Phoenix reveals a
halophile.

Fig. 1: Martian halophile marked in a microscopy taken by NASA's
atomic force microscope on board Phoenix
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1555249977&p=76

Fig. 2: Earthly halophile photographed by NASA
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1555249978&p=77
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  Re: The Marc one is pretty much out the window now.         


Author: RichTravsky
Date: Aug 17, 2008 21:39

Marc Verhaegen wrote:

Broken link.

Opinion piece.

Worthless.
> *AUSTRALIAN scientists working on an archaeological cave dig in South Africa
> have found evidence that some prehistoric humans began eating seafood and

"some"
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