Op zondag 9 april 2023 om 19:35:47 UTC+2 schreef JTEM is so reasonable:
https://lawnchairanthropology.com/category/embryology/
The short & sweet is that walking came FIRST, predating
Homo, and it seems to have done just fine with the long
toes. This suggests that walking was not applying selective
pressure on toe length.
The good Doctor scores another point!
He's right in savanna idiocy does not explain our shorter
toes.
:-)
What astonishes me is that the kudu runners remain so short-sighted:
it's really not so difficult in principle: very very (bio)logical: schematically:
-Mio-Pliocene Hominoidea bipedal=aquarboreal in swamp forests along the Ind.Ocean etc. (eating what exactly??),
-early-Pleist."archaic"Homo shallow-diving for shellfish again along the Ind.Ocean: stone tools, pachyosteosclerosis etc.
https://www.gondwanatalks.com/l/the-waterside-hypothesis-wading-led-to-upright-walking-in-early-humans/
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