Re: Aquatic Ape: You Asked For It.

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: Pete Vincent: "More on British hominid fossil"
• Previous message: J. Boyd Bruce III: "Re: H. ERECTI CANNIBALISM"
• Maybe in reply to: NICHOLLS PHILIP A: "Aquatic Ape: You Asked For It."

OK... I'm gonna stick my neck out here.

>>>Floating infants
>>
>>>> Infants tend to drown easily.
>>
>>> Only because they are not raised in an aquatic environment. Infants
>>> in such an environment can swim *before* they can walk.
>>> Babies can and do float. This is an indisputable fact. I've seen
>>> it with my own eyes. How is this a savannah adaptation. *so* simple.
>>
>>I dispute this fact. Provide scientific evidence to support it.
>>Please not that I am not disputing the possiblity that infants can
>>learn to float. I am disputing that they will do so without the
>>assistance of an adult.
>
> How do you teach a baby to float? Put them in the water, they float.
> If they don't you're out of luck.

Infants can swim and QUITE well. There was a documentary (NOVA?) titled
"water babies". They drop them in a pool and these guys zip around. It was
quite strange to watch. BTW, NOVA also did one on the aquatic ape a long time ago
(just airing out the hypothesis, showing other ideas as well). I believe
that one also showed footage of the swimming infants.

I hope someone can find and summarize these documentaries for us.

-- 

Doug Dyer   -  dyer@alx.sticomet.com    | Real-time systems

Software Technology, Inc. (STI)	        | Flight/Ground software 

DC office: 703-329-9707                 | vxWorks MIPS development & support

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

• Next message: Pete Vincent: "More on British hominid fossil"
• Previous message: J. Boyd Bruce III: "Re: H. ERECTI CANNIBALISM"
• Maybe in reply to: NICHOLLS PHILIP A: "Aquatic Ape: You Asked For It."