Re: Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago

On 2/3/25 12:09 AM, Primum Sapienti wrote:

Staring off into space and asserting that
an assumption is true is the AA way of
doing things.

No. That's what the bed wetters say, as they clutch their
pearls and screech about trees & savannas.
What brought me to Aquatic Ape, though I guess I never had
any emotional reaction against it (as you display), was
Multiregionalism.
In a sense, and I'm sure Wolpoff would throw things at me
for speaking on this but, Multiregionalism is the radical
notion that modern humans did NOT fall out of the sky one
day in 200k BC -- in April, it was a Tuesday -- land on
an Africa savanna and then immediately all go out for tea
& crumpets. No. Instead, Multiregionalism points to the
numerous distinct populations already known and posits that
modern man is an amalgam formed out of their genetic
interactions. (and not necessarily symmetrical intera
I was exposed to Wolpoff, his multiregionalism, and
immediately brushed it off as racism. But I'm not so
closed minded as the savanna idiots, and the more I heard
the harder I looked, and the harder I looked the stronger
his position seemed.
We are force fed Out of Africa purity and it leaves us
with the impression that this is solid fact, there's no
other way to interpret evidence, and the entire rest of
the world agrees with us.
It doesn't.
Anyway, so Multiregionalism was looking stronger and
stronger only, despite exhaustive minutes of research, I
wasn't aware of any mechanism to produce these diverse
"Regional" populations in this Multiregionalism, much less
keep the DNA flowing between them. Until I started paying
closer attention to Aquatic Ape.
Originally I saw AAT as one of a number of COMPETING models
for human development. But once it finally dawned on me
(after an embarrassingly lengthy period of time) that AAT
actually fit "Alternatives" to Out of Africa, well, DAMN!
That was it.
NOTE:  AAT is even consistent with Out of Africa, once you
accept that Coastal Dispersal is a thing, and not the least
bit controversial. At that point AAT is no longer an "If"
but a question of "When" it began... for which there is
evidence stretching back millions of years... millions.

Actually doing *research* and
confirming or disproving something is
anathema to them.

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