https://imgshare.io/image/verhaegen1985.NnU1uX

All that hair facing into the water stream?

Primum Sapienti wrote:

> All that hair facing into the water stream?

Facial hair is a secondary sexual characteristic, signifying sexual
maturity.

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https://jtem.tumblr.com/post/663417145871548416

> https://imgshare.io/image/verhaegen1985.NnU1uX

The illustration is still correct (of course bald) - after >35 years... :-)

1985 Med.Hypoth.16:17-32
"The aquatic ape theory: evidence and a possible scenario"

Much more than other primates, man has several features that are seen more often in aquatic than terrestrial mammals:
nakedness, thick subcutaneous fat-layer, stretched hindlimbs, voluntary respiration, dilute urine etc.
The Aquatic Ape Theory states that our ancestors once spent a significant part of their life in water.
Presumably, early apes were plant & fruit eaters in tropical forests.
Early hominids also ate aquatic food; at first mainly weeds & tubers, later sea shore animals, especially shellfish.
With the Pleistocene cooling, our ancestors returned to land and became bipedal omnivores & scavengers & later hunters of coastal & riverside animals.

The last sentence is probably wrong: I now think:
early-Pleistocene we evolved
- from aquarboreal hominid (bipedal vertical wading + climbing)
- to shallow-diving "archaic" Homo (+-no climbing any more).
The last senetence should be:
"Late-Pleistocene H.sapiens returned to the land, and became bipedal omnivores & scavengers & later hunters of coastal & riverside animals.
Google
"coastal dispersal Pleistocene Homo PPT"

Op maandag 27 september 2021 om 13:02:34 UTC+2 schreef I Envy JTEM:

> Facial hair is a secondary sexual characteristic, signifying sexual
> maturity.

Yes, but initially, male-pattern alopecia, beard & moustache (& even the longer brows of some old men, cf. DHT) were diving adaptations of adult men (see also distribution of acne).

littor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> https://imgshare.io/image/verhaegen1985.NnU1uX
>
>
> The illustration is still correct (of course bald) - after >35 years... :-)

All that hair on the head is not a sign of baldness.

https://imgshare.io/image/verhaegen1985.NnU1uX

Some idiot:

> All that hair on the head is not a sign of baldness.

Why don't you read the article instead of asking ridiculous questions?

littor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> https://imgshare.io/image/verhaegen1985.NnU1uX
>
> Some idiot:
>
>> All that hair on the head is not a sign of baldness.
>
> Why don't you read the article instead of asking ridiculous questions?
>

All that hair facing *into* the water stream...

Why so much hair on the head?

Op zaterdag 23 oktober 2021 om 06:22:02 UTC+2 schreef Primum Sapienti:

> > https://imgshare.io/image/verhaegen1985.NnU1uX

> > Some idiot:

> >> All that hair on the head is not a sign of baldness.

> > Why don't you read the article instead of asking ridiculous questions?

> All that hair facing *into* the water stream...
> Why so much hair on the head?

??
Haven't you even *read* the paper, incredilbe imbecile??
Keep running after your kudu.

littor...@gmail.com wrote:
> Op zaterdag 23 oktober 2021 om 06:22:02 UTC+2 schreef Primum Sapienti:
>
>>> https://imgshare.io/image/verhaegen1985.NnU1uX
>
>>> Some idiot:
>
>>>> All that hair on the head is not a sign of baldness.
>
>>> Why don't you read the article instead of asking ridiculous questions?
>
>> All that hair facing *into* the water stream...
>> Why so much hair on the head?
>
> ??
> Haven't you even *read* the paper, incredilbe imbecile??
> Keep running after your kudu.

No mention of snorkel noses :=}