Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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I reckon the ancient homo-erectus skulls looked something like these fella's.



Well, osprey has given you a blanket to comfort you, I'll try for some snacks .. i see a young child struggling to stand and a you apr doing the same .. I see a primate, having eaten the food that he could get on all fours struggling to stand to survive and over millenniums adapting in structure to the new dance.

Might have checked your? "Only humans are foot propulsion and exhibit poise, grace and balance." as there is certainly some of it going on in the water.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13965603

I agree, "The human foot is an engineering marvel.", but not that it's complexity mandates an imaginary intelligent creator to create it as such. That's possible, but in my mind highly improbable and i much prefer the fossil evidence which in my imagination allows a wonderful adaption to need and all sorts of changes with practice.

The fossil evidence attracts me more than the book.

"Comparisons of the chimpanzee and human foot allow us to reconstruct the pathway of foot evolution. Fossil foot bones of Homo habilis, dated at 1.76 million years, are remarkably like those of modern humans. Foot bones from Hadar, dated at around 3.5 million years, are remarkably chimpanzee-like, with only incipient human traits. The surprising chimpanzee-like qualities of the Hadar fossils strongly support the use of living apes as models of ancestral pongidhominid morphotypes."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6409715&d...