Whole genomic distances are ore a result of similar niches and late introgressions than of timing of initial divergence or gene flow rates. In cases where gene flow is wide spread, such as with Homini

Before Columbus Native American men did not experience hair loss. When we have hair loss, as I do, it is from Old World introgression. Hair genetics is not well understood enough, and too scattered in

Hair loss is not per se an aquatic adaptation. It is an adaptation to pelagic long distance swimming niches in mammals. Sea otters have thick hair, as do some seals for marine mammals. For riparian an

Allan your demands are too silly to respond to all of them. Just because I am not orthodox to ideas about Hominid and in particular Hominin aquatic adaptations, from 1960’s Western culture, does not s

Very little shown about human evolution is very correct. The West still holds many fantasies sacred, despite they are revising some of their fantasies of late. Building upon Western fantasies will oft

I have posted to this group some reasons why humans may be relatively less hairy. I can not lose a debate about human hairiness as I have no original ideas about that. Nor do I claim to understand wit

A simplistic report all the ideas of which I am familiar with. The actual point they are making, is that large populations do not generate higher genetic diversity (not always, as some had thought). T

Human evolution, or evolutionary stasis, via being in the center of the Earth, isolated for a long time on some Island, or surrounded by long lasting impenetrable deserts, is a Tarzan era fantasy. Whi

While “speciation” often takes place in small isolated to relatively isolated populations in non mammals, that is Darwinian evolution. Darwin was a great evolutionary biologist, and lived a long time

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It was canids that introduced hunting to humans, not the other way around. Before alliances with carnivores humans ate bugs, grubs and worms and maybe an occasional small animal. In aquatic adaptation

I have seen dogs under water with their eyes open, including looking for a rack to fetch. The one I saw a few times would watch where the rock fell while leaping into the water, than swim down finding

Novel mutation rates are somewhat steady at all times. What varies is how likely novel mutations are to become advantaged. Natural selection is always active, even when niches and environments are rel

Chimpanzees have periods of being extremely active. Steady human laboring probably did not exist, except in times of crisis such as drought, in humans before agriculture. Great apes are much more phys

These look more like large bodied bipedal African great ape tracks than like hominin tracks. Such as might be expected from some australopiths or Sahelanthropus. Sent from Mail for Windows

Obligate bipedalism is a fantasy just as obligate quadrupedalism in any population of extant great apes or gibbons is a fantasy. Trachilos are 6 million years old, with the hallux (big toe) in line wi

Sight hounds look for objects while under water (some do). Scent hounds do not but can look for objects floating on the water such as dead or wounded water fowl. Sent from Mail for Windows

In Montana I saw a man a few times who played fetch with his dog with stones. He threw them out into Flathead Lake, in water as deep as about six feet. And the dog dove down to get the stones and alwa

When evolution is “stationary” it is not really. Just the morphology is well adapted to the occupied niches and there is not a lot of change in the environment driving pressures of natural selection t

Linear evolution assumes evolution is ever improving and developing higher and higher forms of life. With humans this goes to the Bible, in which men were created in the image of God, and adding to th