... mijn ... eigenlijk ... Ja, ik vreesde al zoiets. Ik denk er wschl. ongeveer hetzelfde over. Best maar zeggen wat je denkt? Beter iets (desnoods deels...
... MW: Glabrous means hairless skin. A small marine island has a limited amount of terrestrial food resources which would force its inhabitants to expand the...
... smaller. ... evolving ... bush-like, ... Shortly after the H/P split, the differences between the descending lines H & P were not large, so that it is...
... Gezondheid, m3d! Een gelukkig nieuwjaar voor allen en beste wensen voor 2006! I didn't drink much: I had guard-duty. The usual stuff, eg, a man who had...
... IOW, halfway between Hh & He? ... Yes, Weidenreich made He reconstructions, but Hh was after his time. I'll send a scan of Weidenreich's reconstruction to...
I've seen quite a bit of abuse of Algis on another site I don't bother participating in, so I thought I'd offer another view. When a true genius appears in...
... Weidenreich, but as yet I haven't been able to find the web-page again. ---Rob Just placed Weidenreich's reconstruction of Pithecanthropus pekinensis in ...
Hello Marcel...... ... If a hominid population had reached an island, even in the case where rising sea-levels had created an island where before there had...
Thanks Marc. I've just uploaded a photomorph of the Taung skull and John Gurche's remarkable and evocative reconstruction. Not much to do with AAT, but worth a...
... in the ... MW: There are many primates that will, on occassion, exploit freshwater and marine invertebrates. But the African continent has an abundance of...
... MW: Oh, I forgot to fully answer your question about island miniaturization. On islands, very large animals tend to become smaller because of the limited...
... Hello Rob… ... If there is a transitional form… H.Rudolfensis would be a better bet. Contemporary to the halibus, taller than the halibus, with a brain...
http://us.video.netscape.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&pmmsid=1447721&guideContext=65.785 Indian with 42' (14 meter) long head hair, uncut for 40 years....
Hi Rob. I'm curious if you might consider morphing a habilis (or lucy or erectus) with a cetacean (right whale, porpoise) or sea otter, just to see what might...
Interesting. What is approx. date of LCA of all Macaques? DD DNA solves mystery of Gibraltar's macaques Category: Genetics News Article Date: 26 Apr 2005 ...
Beavers in Tierra del Fuego, imported from from Canada 60ya, eat mussels, swim across sea channels http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13463111.htm I...
... Humans have ... I was thinking more along the lines of harbor porpoises and small dolphins (mixed fish & mollusk eaters) rather than big baleen whales. DD ...
http://www.seaotters.org/Otters/index.cfm?FuseAction=Photos Friends of the sea otter has nice pics. Find one with sunlit nose, and you'll see that the nostrils...
How long can turtles stay underwater? A: Most sea turtles can stay underwater for about 45 minutes, but green sea turtles can stay submerged for up to five...
ZIMMER CHAPTER: NINE pp. 197-226 Review of the fossil evidence for cetacean origins. Post-Cretaceous warming of global climates. Palaeocene expansion of...
Hello DD..... ... I had a go between a habilis skull (OH24) and a sea-otter skull, but the results were not very informative. You may be interested in giving ...
I think sirenia have heavily mineralized ribs, while seals & dolphins have cartilidge ribs with some mineralization. Human infants have cartilidge ribs, adults...
Hi Rob. Thanks for the try and the info. I was thinking more along the lines of a flesh & fur sea otter, (not skull only) as I like the similar external (but...
Hello DD..........I've been following with interest your efforts to get a response from the folk at Paleoanthro with regard to the adaptation of white sclerae...
... the sea otter has nice pics. Find one with sunlit nose, and you'll see that the nostrils are like human, pointing downwards, rather than forwards or...
... and I must ask ... MW: Again, that's not only true for hominins but all other primates. And other primates do exploit these coastal resources on occassion....
