Re: Philip Tobias, Savanna Theory & bipedalism

Thomas Clarke (clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu)
17 Oct 1995 12:20:21 GMT

In article <45ucu8$i0o@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n8010095@cc.wwu.edu (Phillip Bigelow)
writes:

Here are the sources that William Calvin gives for savannah theory.
I haven't had a chance to look at the original yet. Perhaps
you have it on your shelf.

(This is verbatim from the WWW version of his book, The River That
Flows Uphill, http://weber.u.washington.edu/~wcalvin/bk3.html)

For a modern savannah theory, see

C. Owen Lovejoy, "The origin of man," Science 211:341-350 (23 January 1981).

His reproductive strategy arguments are reported on in

Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind,
Simon and Shuster, New York (1981)

Tom Clarke