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

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

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

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...