Op vrijdag 8 juli 2022 om 12:34:49 UTC+2 schreef
littor...@gmail.com:
-early- & mid-Pleistocene Homo frequently dived for shallow-aquatic foods: pachyosteosclerosis, huge brain, ear exostoses...
-aquarboreal Mio-Pliocene hominoids were already "bipedal" waders-climbers in swamp forests,
-Miocene hominoids dispersed intercontinentally along Tethys coastal forests, -the Mesopotamian Seaway closure c 15 Ma split pongids (E) & hominids (W), -australopiths are closer relatives of Pan or Gorilla than of Homo: --E.Afr.apiths afarensis-boisei... are fossil relatives of Gorilla, --S.Afr.apiths africanus-robustus-naledi... are fossil relatives of Pan, -knuckle-walking evolved in parallel in Pan//Gorilla (e.g. Verhaegen 1994 Hum.Evol.9:121-139),
-Pliocene Homo-Pan lived along the Red Sea.
Sorry, the last hypothesis wasn't correct: not Plio- but later-Miocene: it should be:
-late-Miocene hominids lived along the Red Sea,
-c 8 Ma, Gorilla & Homo-Pan split, and Gorilla followed the Rift,
-the Zanclean Flood 5.4 Ma opened the Red Sea into the Ind.Ocean, Pan went right, Homo went left.
Some of these hypotheses are less certain, but only incredible imbeciles still believe their Pleistocene ancestors ran after antelopes.
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