Re: Infant Mortality and Bipedalism. Stage 1.

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In article <01bbe1d5$81b7a340$062470c2@jdwaters.dircon.co.uk>,
John Waters <jdwaters@dircon.co.uk> wrote:

>Is this a reasonable proposition? Could the conjunction of
>bipedalism and infant mortality have led to the
>hairlessness of the hominid species?

I'm sure DHEA has something to do with it. Or testosterone.

:-)

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Jim (Chris) Foley,                 jim.foley@symbios.com

Assoc. Prof. of Omphalic Envy      Research interest:

Department of Anthropology         Primitive hominids

University of Ediacara             (Australopithecus creationistii)

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