http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/ shore adaptations in the genus Homo Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:37:55 GMT Algis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55031 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55031 ... Hi Rob ... Well the temperature may have been a little higher and the air currents might have ebeen a little different but it seems a bit of a convenient Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:29:12 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55030 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55030 ... If we define Homo as everything in our branch after the H/P split (as I prefer), brain size is no criterion. Hf had several apith-like features (climbing Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:59:31 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55029 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55029 ... At 400 cm - it is not genus Homo, perhaps A.floresiensis would be more accurate - an extinct Indonesian a'pith. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:38:55 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55028 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55028 "For the past five years, almost every study including more than a single gene has agreed on one central fact: humans and chimpanzees last exchanged genes less Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:22:22 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55027 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55027 http://kalkion.com/news/hobbits-are-new-human-species/732 Hobbits Are A New Human Species Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:13:17 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55026 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55026 'Lucy' Redux: A Review of Research on Australopithecus afarensis WH Kimbel & LK Delezene 2009 Yb.phys.Anthr.52:2-48 ... Dietary reconstructions and occlusal Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:54:47 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55025 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55025 New hominid fossils from Woranso-Mille (Central Afar, Ethiopia) and taxonomy of early Australopithecus Y Haile-Selassie, BZ Saylor, A Deino, M Alene & BM Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:40:39 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55024 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55024 ... OK The question that remains is when it occurred and perhaps why these particular chromosomes fused into one. Was it a random event, or is there a link to Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:28:35 GMT Rob Dudman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55023 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55023 ... From: Algis To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:45 PM Subject: [AAT] Re: Wading debate: ape diets Hello Algis..... ... The climate Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:06:50 GMT Algis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55022 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55022 ... Yes but it's the collections of nucleotides that code for genes and for regulatory RNA that do the work. What chromosome they happen to be on is really Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:39:53 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55021 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55021 ... OK ... That's a curious description of chromosomes - a collection of "random sized suitcases full of bits and bobs" ... By definition a chromosome - is a Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:01:45 GMT Algis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55020 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55020 ... Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I didn't mean to imply (although it probably came over that way) that the karyotype caused the split. Just that it was a Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:45:56 GMT Algis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55019 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55019 ... Hi Rob ... Well done... I always appreciate people that do that! No distortions at all. You'd never do that! ... Was the world all that different 3Ma? I Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:05 GMT Rob Dudman http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55018 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55018 ... From: Algis To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:39 PM Subject: [AAT] Re: Wading debate: ape diets Hello Algis.......I've mixed and Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:51:33 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55017 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/55017 Contagious yawning in gelada baboons as a possible expression of empathy E Palagi, A Leone, G Mancini & PF Ferrari 2009 PNAS Contagious yawning in gelada