To: Tallguy
...an extended warm period forced some apes out of the trees and onto the savannah, where walking erect probably allowed the brain to remain cooler ...HELLO!!
I'll bet it was MUCH 'cooler' up in the trees!
317 posted on
12/21/2005 10:10:46 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Elsie
I'll bet it was MUCH 'cooler' up in the trees! Maybe the forests shrunk and the grasslands expanded. Kind of forces some changes.
342 posted on
12/21/2005 10:28:36 AM PST by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: Elsie
Whoops! Excuse me! The dry period would have resulted in a replacing of the rain forest with the savannah -- hence no, or far fewer trees. Or so the hypothesis goes...
372 posted on
12/21/2005 11:25:20 AM PST by
Tallguy
(When it's a bet between reality and delusion, bet on reality -- Mark Steyn)
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