Re: Why Large Gap Between Species...?

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Nat Turner (turner@smarty.smart.net) wrote:

: This has never been clear to me. Now that we've established man's
: origins, how do we explain the absence of all his closely related
: sub-species? Even the austrolopiths should have been better equipped
: to survive than monkeys and apes, yet they have not. Why?

Competitive exclusion, facilitated by H. erectus use of fire to reduce/
fragment closed habitats in Africa even further.

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Harry Erwin, Internet: herwin@gmu.edu, Web Page: http://osf1.gmu.edu/~herwin 

49 year old PhD student in computational neuroscience ("how bats do it" 8)

and lecturer for CS 211 (data structures and advanced C++)

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