littor...@gmail.com wrote:
"Adaptive Patterns in Aquatic Amniote Bone Microanatomy
— More Complex than Previously Thought"
Alexandra Houssaye, P Martin Sander & Nicole Klein 2016
Integrative & Comparative Biology 56:1349-69
doi 10.1093/icb/icw120
...
on extinct taxa. Two opposing major microanatomical specializations have been
described in aquatic amniotes, referred to as bone mass increase and a >>>> spongious organization, respectively. They are assumed to be essentially >>>> linked with the hydrostatic
or hydrodynamic control of buoyancy and body trim and with swimming
abilities and velocity. ...
Of course, only complete idiots believe that archaic Homo
had snorkel noses.
OI, BIG NOSE !
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/21245757_Aquatic_Ape_Theory_and_fossil_hominids
AQUATIC APE THEORY AND FOSSIL HOMINIDS
M. J. B. VERHAEGEN Medical Hypotheses 35: 108-114 (1991)
"In a Neandertal swimming on his back, the large nose with distal nostrils
and the protruding midface surrounded by large air sinuses functioned as a snorkel."
That's the fantasy land of AA - nostrils on the end of the nose.
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