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closeAcheulean preference for flooded areas
Posted by marc_verhaegen on 17 Oct 2014 at 00:48 GMT
"... The Early Pleistocene occupation of analogous flooded areas suggests a hominin preference for this habitat type as is also suggested by other studies of the palaeo-ecology of Lower Palaeolithic hominins." Thanks a lot for your very beautiful & interesting paper. It once more confirms the "coastal dispersal model" (S.Munro 2010 "Molluscs as Ecological Indicators in Palaeo-anthropological Contexts. PhD thesis Austr.Nat.Univ.Canberra): rather than running over savannas as some popular accounts of human evolution still believe, Homo populations during the Ice Ages simply followed the coasts (as far as Indonesia, the Cape & England) & from the coasts up rivers, beach-combing, bipedally wading & diving for different waterside & shallow aquatic plant & animal foods.
The proceedings of the symposium on human waterside evolution "Human Evolution: Past, Present & Future" (London 8-10 May 2013, with David Attenborough & Don Johanson) are publisehd in Human Evolution:
Special Edition Part 1 (end 2013)
- Peter Rhys-Evans: Introduction
- Stephen Oppenheimer: Human's Association with Water Bodies: the 'Exaggerated Diving Reflex' and its Relationship with the Evolutionary Allometry of Human Pelvic and Brain Sizes
- JH Langdon: Human Ecological Breadth: Why Neither Savanna nor Aquatic Hypotheses can Hold Water
- Stephen Munro: Endurance Running versus Underwater Foraging: an Anatomical and Palaeoecological Perspective
- Algis Kuliukas: Wading Hypotheses of the Origin of Human Bipedalism
- Marc Verhaegen: The Aquatic Ape Evolves: Common Misconceptions and Unproven Assumptions about the So-Called Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
- CL Broadhurst & Michael Crawford: The Epigenetic Emergence of Culture at the Coastline: Interaction of Genes, Nutrition, Environment and Demography
Special Edition Part 2 (begin 2014) with 12 contributions.
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