From the linked paper. Taxa do not get “forced” usually to migrate. If they had open niches some place else they would already be there not get forced to go there. Though this type of silly reasoning

Canid fossils in association with Homo erectus in China have very similar age data to canids in sites known to be human consumption of associated canids. This has long been known with a lot of work pu

The Chinese Wolf, Ancestor of New World Dogs on JSTOR Sent from Mail for Windows

Peking man cohabitated with dogs by about 600kya. This should be obvious from the fossil record though many are unable to get it. Sent from Mail for Windows

Sea otters use hammer stones and anvils to break shells. Semi aquatic humans could have had a tool kit they tied to floats. At some point including containers for fresh water such as gourds. Sent from

Humans however had tools to assist with aquatic living. Such as sticks hammer stones and floats. Sent from Mail for Windows

Humans have never been aquatic even to the level of seals. Humans could easily transition from marine to lacustrine to riparian to terrestrial or arboreal. Humans are a radiation of a primitive / gene

Different great apes splitting off from a tree leading up to humans is not at all supported by genetics. And is disputed by some morphologists well before the genetic evidence demonstrated this model

Gori;;a tends to live in cooler environments than chimps. Might be related in part to thermoregulation. Sent from Mail for Windows

There is no biological Europe. Hominins and great apes did not know about geological boundaries, or predict political futures. There was free gene flow with Europe and Asia, and less so with Africa. E

About the same difficulty to make a net to hold things as to make the hair into a net. With a net and a float a lot easier to operate than with hair nets. And water containers can more easily be place

First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange | Nature

The Carthaginians wrote about great apes in Africa which they encountered in voyages. They considered them humans. The males could not be taken, as they threw showers of stones. The women bit and scra

Of course Lufengpithecus is likely to have had semi aquatic or aquatic populations, enabling their spread. As there is no direct fossil evidence for this, I am using models in which Lufengpithecus was

Hominid speciation appears to have in some cases been driven by deforestation events leaving forested regions, such as in Africa and Asia, distant without arboreal connections. Lufengpithecus it appea

There is no evidence of Homo erectus on Flores, or the Philippines. Only of archaic pygmies which are relic habilines and never passed through any Homo erectus grade. See Debbie Argue et al 2017 and M

Though even a few years ago it has been taught and published that only African great apes knuckle walk, like a lot of other “wisdom” about extant hominid locomotion this is incorrect. Orangutans often

Neither of the links predict where the viruses originated geographically. OoA is often incorrectly used as an axiom. OoA is a magical belief that over great periods of time human ancestry has originat

Viral relics in hominid genomes are very important. They do have some limitations. To give some examples. Viral relics can be from other than primary ancestors. Such as through introgressions or HGT.

Paleontology has not taught linear evolution in more advanced programs at least since I was a graduate student. In the 1980’s. No obsession with rising up from lesser creatures now. Sent from Mail for