Re: Human Language.

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"John Waters" <jdwaters@dircon.co.uk> wrote:

>Peter Crowley <pcrowley@indigo.ie> wrote in article
><59csaa$318@news.indigo.ie>...
>>
>> Hunting is most unlikely at this time. The A-piths
>> certainly did not have the anatomy for it; neither IMHO
>did
>> H.erectus.

>JW: This is interesting, Peter. Just what sort of anatomy
>is needed for hunting?

It seems clear, as a result of research conducted by Alan Walker and
others, that due to secondary atriciality in newborn H. erectus
babies, the species had to have had a diet very rich in protein.
Unless H. erectus spent all its time locating kills from which to
scavenge scraps, hunting was clearly a primary occupation of the
species.

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