Re: AAT Theory
H. M. Hubey (hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu)
13 Oct 1995 00:09:18 -0400
n8010095@cc.wwu.edu (Phillip Bigelow) writes:
> A tantalizing possibility is that the time of loss of a majority of body hair
>coincided with the wearing of clothing, such as furry animal skins. As far
That would go some ways towards solving this particular problem.
But there are still some problems.
>But in any case, the most parsinomious idea is that Lucy and her immediate
>ancestors had abundant body hair...just like the apes of her body mass.
Ok, but we see the critters getting larger. However under the
hot & dry scenario large animals would not have an advantage over
small animals because of problems of heat rejection. Although we
don't know what size would have been a cut-off, the advantage
would have been in getting smaller since the larger ones would
have been dying of overheating. So either they found some way
to cool-off to allow them to get larger or something else was
happening. Do animals just get large for no reason at all?
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Regards, Mark
http://www.smns.montclair.edu/~hubey
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