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  Good advice to the intellectually tender-hearted         


Author: Claudius Denk
Date: Aug 24, 2008 10:39

>> I'm interested in paleoanthropology, the hominid fossil
>> record and primatology.
>
>> Could we have a discussion and just ignore the "True
>> Believers" and netloons?
>
>> Or is this not possible on a newsgroup?
>
> No Phil, sadly it isn't. SAP has been around for 1 years & the 1
> constant has been the sniping back & forward about aquatic ape theory.

I agree. This is sad.

> You should register on the moderated Yahoo paleoanthropology groups,
> paleoanthro & palanthsci. The latter is a bit less technical & a bit
> more freer discussion than the former but on either you will get a
> good discussion on your posted subject. You have to register with
> Yahoo & then apply to the groups' moderators to join...
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  The Harmony Between Water And Plants         


Author: Hamady
Date: Aug 24, 2008 05:02

All plants, large and small alike, from grasses to tall trees and the
multitudes of flowers, can transport water and the nutrition they
carry from the soil up to their farthermost leaves and branches. Yet,
this transportation process is not achieved by means of systems
present in the plants only. For this transportation to happen, the
characteristics of water itself also need to be in harmony with the
structures of the plants.

We can see this harmony by looking at the general structure of water.

It is evident that water, which is indispensable for the survival of
the Earth's living things, is a substance that has been especially
designed and created. One of the essential features of water is that
it possesses a high "surface tension." Surface tension occurs when the
molecules on a liquid's surface attract each other, thus creating a
barrier between the air and the liquid. Because of this, a water
container can carry an amount of water that is slightly higher than
its own height without overflowing. Also, a metal needle can float on
water without sinking if it is carefully put on the surface in a
horizontal position.
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  Omo Hs c 200 ka = riparian         


Author: Marc Verhaegen
Date: Aug 24, 2008 02:17


Thanks a lot, DD.
- Yes, Hs at Omo was riparian and their diet included fish.
- No reason IMO why Omo-I & Omo-II should belong to different spp! The
heavy bones of Omo II (vs Omo I) only suggests that some of them still dived
parttime.

--Marc Verhaegen
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/outthere.htm

_____

Earliest Known Human Had Neanderthal Qualities
Jennifer Viegas 22.8.08

The world's first known Hs was a tall thin individual (male?) who lived c
200 ka & resembled present-day Ethiopians, but retained a few primitive
characteristics ass.x Hn
... series of forthcoming studies, special issue of JHE.
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  Anyone want to discuss paleoanthropology?         


Author: Marc Verhaegen
Date: Aug 24, 2008 01:03

>>> The savanna nonsense is still not dead:
>>> The Evolution of Body Heat Conductivity, Skin
>>> and Brain Size in Human
>>> AI Ibraimov 2007 JHE 21:95-103
>>> What is unusual about the human brain is that
>>> we are the only largish mammal whose brain size
>>> kept pace with our growth in body size.
>>> The plausible reason of this phenomenon is his skin, when
>>> after having lost its hair it became the largest and almost
>>> universal organ of sense, which begins functioning as early
>>> as in the prenatal period of human development.
>>> (pure fantasy: the man is raving)
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  Egypt Smart Village Satellites Images Map         


Author: elshayal
Date: Aug 23, 2008 12:06

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Thank you and best regards
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  New book further supports controversial theory of 'Man the Hunted         


Author: Claudius Denk
Date: Aug 22, 2008 21:35

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/wuis-nbf082008.php

Despite popular theories to the contrary, early humans evolved not as
aggressive hunters, but as prey of many predators.

"Humans are no more born to be hunters than to be gardeners," argues
Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington
University in St. Louis, in the newly-updated version of the
controversial book "Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators and Human
Evolution."

The soft cover book, released in July by Westview Press, includes a
new chapter aimed at quieting critics and responding to new evidence
that has appeared since the book's original publication in 2005.

In the original volume, Sussman poses a new theory, based on the
fossil record and living primate species, that primates have been prey
for millions of years, a fact that greatly influenced the evolution of
early man. The book won the 2006 W.W. Howells Award for the best book
in biological anthropology written for a wide audience.

Both versions are co-authored by Donna L. Hart, Ph.D., a member of the
faculty of Pierre Laclede Honors College and the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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  <> Rexsy - Beautiful Romantic Symphonic Piano Music <>         


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Date: Aug 22, 2008 17:12

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  Crocs rip tourist to pieces         


Author: RichTravsky
Date: Aug 22, 2008 13:13

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24204861-5013016,00.html

A DRUNKEN man on a wildlife tour leaned over a rail to stroke a crocodile - and
was pulled into the water and torn to shreds by eight of the raging beasts as
50 horrified holidaymakers looked on.

Fire department spokesman Ramiro Alos, speaking from the Lake Carpintero
sanctuary near Tampico, Mexico, said: "ItÂ’s unheard of for eight crocodiles to
join forces in killing a man.

"ItÂ’s the most savage attack in living memory in Mexico.

"There are no remains and we canÂ’t identify him. He must have suffered
horrifically."
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  How Do the Giant Oceans Regulate Their Temperature Balance?         


Author: Hamady
Date: Aug 22, 2008 08:48

Water's greater latent heat and thermal capacity as compared with
other liquids are the reasons that bodies of water heat up and cool
off more slowly than does the land. On land, the difference in
temperature between the hottest and coldest places can reach as high
as 284 F°; at sea, that difference varies at most between 59-68 F°.
The same situation exists in the difference between daytime and
nighttime temperatures: in arid environments on land, the difference
in temperature can be as much as 68-86F°; at sea, this is never more
than a few degrees. And not only the seas are affected in this way:
the water vapor in the atmosphere is also a big balancing agent. One
result of this is that in desert regions where there is very little
water vapor present, the difference between daytime and nighttime...
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  Will you drink Martians' blood?         


Author: Lin Liangtai
Date: Aug 22, 2008 03:38

Will you drink Martians' blood?

NASA has found a lot of water on Mars. But those water came
originally
from Martians' fossil bones as the following photo shows. All bones
have unique structures called Haversian canals (Ref. 1), which contain
blood vessels. In the following photo numerous Martian Haversian
canals are found in the white ice. So, the water NASA found must have
been Martians’blood.

Ref. 1: Wikipedia illustrations of Haversian canals and osteons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversian_canals

Fig. 1: Newly identified Haversian canals in new ice on Mars:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=20&f=1555262598&p=81
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