http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/ shore adaptations in the genus Homo Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:24:15 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54944 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54944 "What difference could there be between human and ape that would precipitate the very great differences we see today?" Hi RKS. The most important differences Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:41:33 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54943 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54943 ... Algis, If I understand you correctly, I am not sure hybridisation would be possible after a period of more than 4 million years. Would not for example the Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:17:19 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54942 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54942 The Mountains That Froze the World Phil Berardelli 3 November 2009 http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1103/2?etoc The rise of the Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:45:42 GMT Algis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54941 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54941 ... That's not my understanding m3d. I wrote to Paul Mohr, a geologist who has worked on the Afar traingle and written several papers about this. He told me Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:02:07 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54940 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54940 R Vullo, E Gheerbrant, C de Muizon & D Neraudeau 2009 PNAS in press The oldest modern therian mammal from Europe and its bearing on stem marsupial Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:39:15 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54939 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54939 ... Algis, Think Lumiere - speculated that the island would have formed some time in the Pliocene, and re-connected with the mainland at around 2.6 Mya ... The Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:37:26 GMT Algis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54938 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54938 ... The Afar evidence is very compelling. It seems likely that it played a part in the story somewhere. ... The flooding apparently started 4mya and the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:07:52 GMT Algis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54937 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54937 Happy Birthday To You Happy Birthday To You Happy Birthday dear Elaine Happy Birthday To You Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:15:07 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54936 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54936 Discovery of the oldest European marsupial 4.11.09 R Vullo, E Gheerbrant, C de Muizon & D Néraudeau 2009 PNAS The oldest modern therian mammal from Europe and Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:42:46 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54935 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54935 Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain 5.11.09 http://www.physorg.com/news176649240.html Common experience tells us that particular scents of Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:43 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54934 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54934 Babies' language learning starts from the womb 5.11.09 http://www.physorg.com/news176636288.html From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:41:47 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54933 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54933 ... Would agree, Elaine. What is difficult to understand though, why the research of Stephen C Cunnane and his colleagues is ignored when they have provided Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:28 GMT Elaine Morgan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54932 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54932 ... From: m3dodds To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:06 PM Subject: [AAT] Man - The Shore Ape "We argue that the shore-based ecologic Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:24:27 GMT Marc Verhaegen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54931 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54931 Thanks, m3d. --marc ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:06:56 GMT m3dodds http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54930 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAT/message/54930 "We argue that the shore-based ecologic niche was uniquely able to stimulate expansion of the primate brain because, in addition to being a plentiful supply of