Beginning around two million years ago, early stone tool-making humans, known scientifically as Oldowan hominin, started to exhibit a number of physiological...
Nice observation, dons ;) I used the blue color simply because of the word "blueprint". And this may avoid the discussion of skin color of the "original";...
Thanks Francesca and Felipe, I have diagrams for our ancestors, most are ideas from Marc (aquarboreal apes, bottom-diving Homo) and Cunnane & Stewart (wetland...
This can only sound like gloating, but now that established Academia failed to pick up the baton in time, now they stand to receive none of the credit for the...
I'd love to see them... do you have them online anywhere? If not (and as I know it's not possible to send attachments through the group) could you email them...
Surely no "harmony" in water. I even guess that the increase in our body size (as compared to the first Australopitecines) could be due to the selective...
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Felipe Carvalho <felipebeltrao@... ... Ditto on the crocs and sharks. It's interesting to watch videos of aborigines ...
Yes, it's incredible, Chris. 50 years after Hardy (1960) & Sauer (1962), paleo-anthropologists are still running after antelopes. No other science is so...
Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes Nancy J Stevens, Erik R Seiffert, Patrick M. O'Connor, Eric M Roberts,...
In historical times still, humans were terrified by terrestrial carnivores such as lions (Gilgamesh), bears (Beowulf), wolves (Little Red Ridinghood) etc. ...
Are you sure they were truly terrified? A lot of those stories are clearly about frightening little kids and telling them not to go off in the woods by...
Hi Heather, I agree with all this. Have you read any Angela Carter - her fairy tales, and allegories with sexual predators? If not, you really should! It's...
Your thoughts on comparative dangers between aquatic and savannah living brought to mind a danger that I do not remember ever hearing mentioned. While a...
No, I had not heard of her. I'll have to correct that ignorance on my part. She sounds intriguing. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Francesca Mansfield < ... ...
Indeed. --marc Your thoughts on comparative dangers between aquatic and savannah living brought to mind a danger that I do not remember ever hearing...
David Quammen 2003 "Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind" For millennia, lions, tigers & their man-eating kin have...
Huh. That is a good point. The closest analogy is a shark feeding frenzy. But Jamie and Adam, during Shark Week, actually showed surviving floating with a...
... Killer whale attacks seal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvJ8ujulLg8 aquatic mammals and semi-aquatic mammals, with maybe one or two exceptions are...
... Ain't that because most of these descend from what was original land carnivores? The feeding ethology from land is generally transferred into the water. ...
Some additional thoughts: Cetaceans form two distinct groups: baleen and toothed. I've heard a theory that the baleen whales may have descended from herbivores...
... That seems to be the case, the difference between toothed and baleen is the latter are filter feeders, using the mouth to filter out of water small prey...
... Baleen whales... The difference is they are filter feeders, they swim with the mouth open filtering out small prey from the water. While their toothed kin,...
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Francesca Mansfield < ... Seems like fish and molluscs are in a 3rd category, digestion-speaking. A number of birds, ducks for...
The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans Guo-dong Wang cs 2013 Nature Communications doi 10.1038/ncomms2814 The...
Seems like fish and molluscs are in a 3rd category, digestion-speaking. A number of birds, ducks for instance, or songbirds, will eat snails or fish, but can't...
Thank you, Re: Killer whale attacks seal. As threats to longterm survivability go, predation should be far down the list. Lions, crocodiles, and killer whales...
