Manuscript in preparation. March 1, 2021

Boeing airplanes have crashed a few places in the world during the past century. Before crashing, those planes may have been modified in different cities, giving them new seats and paint jobs. But the

The human primate body— bald and bipedal, with large brain, nose, and blubber — probably evolved due to a freak island accident. Imagine meeting a married couple in a nursing home. They are both in wh

Typo? No, that's an acceptible alternetive spelling! Too bad more scientists aren't gods, as Phillip Tobias must have been.

New ideas on the possible use and misuse of the Stone Age handaxe Manuscript in preparation, February 12, 2021.

Manuscript in preparation. January 30, 2021

https://youtu.be/vl7HUx3zQ5k This talk was given at the 34th Geological Winter Meeting (Jan. 6- 8, 2021). Organized and recorded by the Geological Society of Norway Here is the published abstract for

Presentation at the 34th Geological Winter Meeting.

Speciation requires reproductive isolation, for which there can be many causes. Sometimes this is by physical separation, but there are many other possibilities. Gorillas and chimpanzees had an arbore

Here is a proposed evolutionary tree, showing how humans may have evolved directly from chimpanzees that became isolated on Bioko about 4 million years ago. It is modified from the image on Wikipedia.

https://groups.io/g/AAT/message/68991 On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:37 AM, alandarwinvanarsdale wrote: Fossils are concentrated in East Africa because that is where rocks are exposed of the right age to

https://groups.io/g/AAT/message/69009 On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 04:25 AM, Marc Verhaegen wrote: No, Allan: all hylobatids/pongids/hominids lived along the Ind.Ocean. All hominoids incl.hominids split &

Chimps are our closest relatives, and gorillas next closest. They live along the Atlantic Ocean, far from the Danakil highlands, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean. They have been living near the Atlan

Sail Away, by Randy Newman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCRGrnhdNQE (Now sing it with new lyrics for Bioko.) In the water you'll get food to eat. Won't have to hang in the jungle. Won't need to com

Hey Chimps! Sail on over to Bioko! It's less than 50 km away — a quick trip (if you're lucky) You won't be able to leave, and your descendants won't want to leave. Relax with plenty of nutritious mari

Including the human, there are now 13 living taxa of great apes. Except for the human, the great apes are not very mobile. We can be certain that each taxon now lives in the isolated area where it evo

Manuscript in preparation. Dec. 8, 2020

Elaine Morgan's Publications Elaine Morgan 1972 The Descent of Woman Elaine Morgan 1982 The Aquatic Ape: A Theory of Human Evolution Elaine Morgan 1990 The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us

The world has many competing religions that involve various miracles that specialists believe in. But they don't think that the miracles of any competing religion are actually valid. Those miracles ar

Excerpt from the intro chapter to the book Chimpanzees and Human Evolution, by Muller et al. 2017. (My bold-italics for the last 3 sentences.) The idea that modern chimpanzees might be similar to the