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Re: The Gathering Hypothesis
Lemonhead (karpiak@uiuc.edu)
Thu, 18 May 1995 02:36:09 -0500
On Thu, 18 May 1995, Ben Diebold wrote:
> > But you were talking about a *behavior* (a mating display). *Behaviors*
> > do not *create* attributes. In the case of bipedalism (and probably
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> I'm a naive lurker on this forum, so I'd like to interject with a question
> about this, because I am confused. I thought it was appropriate to look
> for behavior, and then for morphology. If attributes are thought of in
> terms of morphology, then is it wrong to think about behaviors creating
> attributes?
>
You're right Ben. I was gonna reply to that, but I didn't
becuase I thought I was missing something, but I guess I didn't miss
anything. He pretty much has it completly backwards.
An example that pops to mind: Increased bipedal behavior
resulted in a whole lot of attributes: short toes, an abducted big toe, a
strong heel, a stable ankle, and an arched foot-- namely all the
attributes of a human (and whatever made the Laetoli footprints) foot.
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