Re: refs re: crying as a marine marker

jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk
19 Oct 1995 12:13:43 GMT

n8010095@cc.wwu.edu (Phillip Bigelow) wrote:
>

> Furthermore, since your reference only discusses the chimpanzee, we need
>good reference sources that discuss other members of the Order Primates.
>If only one other primate has tears (emotional of non-emotional), it will
>blow the "salty-tear" evidence of aquaticness right out of the water (pardon
>the pun). Such a survey of all the primates hasn't been done, to my
>knowledge.
>

Well, find one purely terrestrial primate besides humans that sheds tears
when emotionally upset and the AAT will be smashed. Go ahead, make my
day....

James Borrett.