Re: Evolution, Bipedalism, and Precision Throwing in Hominids

On 4.8.2024. 0:09, JTEM wrote:

  Primum Sapienti wrote:

The evolution of powerful and precise throwing
developed a means of defense and attack that
enabled hominins to colonize the savanna,
occupy a new ecological niche, and become
hunter-gatherers, essentially becoming humans.

 Are we pretending that a savanna environment is what
typifies Homo?
 This is literally dogma. One sentence in and we have
a massive circular "Argument" posed in the defense of
Out of Africa purity.
 And you wonder why all the intelligent people have
abandoned it?

I was thinking about African savanna lately. As I am seeing it, African Savanna (as compared to Euro-Asian steppe, which, of course formed only after the last glacial period, I presume) could form only because of being depleted of people. Savanna, simply, is too far inland from the sources of salt. But, savanna, originally, emerged in Europe, north Mediterranean, Vallesian crisis (officially 9.75 mya, I just glanced through Agusti at al. 2013 paper about the subject, but I see that they found such environment, with Hipparion horses, 11.5 mya, in Vienna basin). Bipedal apes emerged in the very same environment.