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

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 &

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

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.

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

Presentation at the 34th Geological Winter Meeting.

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

Manuscript in preparation. January 30, 2021

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

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

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

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

Manuscript in preparation. March 1, 2021

Manuscript in preparation. March 9, 2021.

I have learned a lot from reading and writing messages with the AAT (aquatic ape theory) group @groups.io. https://groups.io/g/AAT/search?q=posterid:4444723 I hope to get a group discussion going here

This is a brilliant book. Free pdf download here: PassionateApe.com The Passionate Ape. Bad Sex. Strong Love, and Human Evolution. by Craig Hagstrom. Starting from the Aquatic Ape hypothesis, this wor

The parsimony principle is basic to all science and tells us to choose the simplest scientific explanation that fits the evidence. In terms of tree-building, that means that, all other things being eq

Humans apparently first got malaria parasites by being bitten by mosquitos that had also bitten western gorillas. Loy et al. 2017. Out of Africa: origins and evolution of the human malaria parasites P

From genetic evidence it is thought that the first seals evolved about 23 million years ago, near the beginning of the Miocene epoch. A simple model for the evolution of seals is that mammals resembli

Manuscript in preparation. April 10, 2021