Re: The Aquatic Adaptation of the Human Ear
jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk
16 Oct 1995 09:07:34 GMT
David Froehlich <eohippus@moe.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>References? Frankly I have never asked an elephant if it was emotionally
>disturbed. For that matter, I haven't asked any marine mammals either.
>How was this data collected? Who did it? What other animals did they
>enquire of as to their emotional state?
>
The challenge here was for you to falsify the strongest argument for AAT. I'm not going to help
you do it too much. Do a bids search for AAT papers as a start or look at Dewi Morgan's WWW
pages.Go and find a refence of any purely terrestrial animal weeping in response to having it's
young kidnapped or something like that and AAT will be defeated because it is a testable
hypothesis that all animals that shed tears when emotionally upset have recent marine ancesters.
>>
does this mean that all
>primates evolved in an aquatic setting?
All I'm saying here is that there was a limit as to how big our brains could grow until we
started eating lots of fish. If this argument is defeated as well then you can consider at least a
partial defeat for AAT.
James Borrett.
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