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Re: WAS: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - NOW: aquatic mammals

Marc Verhaegen — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:07:24 GMT

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

dog domestication c 32 ka ?

Marc Verhaegen — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:58:01 GMT

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

Re: WAS: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - NOW: aquatic mammals

Heather Twist — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:25:23 GMT

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

Re: WAS: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - NOW: aquatic mammals

dons3148 — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:55:53 GMT

... 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,

Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reaction

dons3148 — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:56:51 GMT

... 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

Re: WAS: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - NOW: aquatic mammals

Francesca Mansfield — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:07 GMT

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

Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reaction

c.h.engelbrecht@... — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:13:50 GMT

... 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.

Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reaction

dons3148 — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:12:36 GMT

... Killer whale attacks seal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvJ8ujulLg8 aquatic mammals and semi-aquatic mammals, with maybe one or two exceptions are

Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reactions = no argu

Marc Verhaegen — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:09:14 GMT

No work, only curiosity. Thanks a lot, Chak. --marc Van: azul_chan_chak Beantwoorden - Aan: "AAT@yahoogroups.com"

From ocean to land: the fishy origins of our hips

Marc Verhaegen — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:08:12 GMT

Re: Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reac

Heather Twist — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:45:57 GMT

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

Re: Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reac

Marc Verhaegen — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:12:11 GMT

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

Re: Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reac

Marc Verhaegen — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:08:07 GMT

Indeed. --marc Your thoughts on comparative dangers between aquatic and savannah living brought to mind a danger that I do not remember ever hearing

Re: Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reac

Heather Twist — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:50:48 GMT

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 < ...

Re : [AAT] Re: Johanson & Gee 20 years retarded - emotional reaction

terry — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:08:40 GMT

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