algiskuliukas.bsky.social
Son of Romanian/Lithuanian refugees. Born in the UK and culturally English. Nottingham Forest fan for 50 yrs. Married to Lesley. 4 kids. Was SQL Server and Access 'guru'. Studied the Wading Hypothesis. MSc from UCL. Moved to Australia to do a PhD at UWA.
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If you exaggerate anything you can make it sound silly. You are misrepresenting a perfectly plausible and evidence-based set of ideas: Waterside hypotheses of human evolution. See www.whattalks.com
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Totally. It is wrong to call it pseudoscience. Waterside hypotheses of human evolution (as they, plural, should be called) are perfectly plausible and evidence-based. See www.whattalks.com
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She wrote several more books on the subject that were far better, IMO.
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Slava Ukraini!!
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... and off they go. Next it'll be a blocking. Too high a climb? Pontzer and his minions can't even engage in a rational debate about what it actually is they think is worthy of poking fun at.
The response to Morgan et al has been, and continues to be, a scandal of Piltdown proportions.
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You say you disagree with the hypothesis but, see, we don't think you even know what it is. If you have exaggerated the idea to breaking point then, of course, you'll "disagree".
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Then why did you provoke a response by posting a typically sneering comment? Can't you see how frustrating this is to those of us who have taken the trouble to study these ideas? You are behaving like a creationist.
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Like I say... pseudoskeptics. The response to waterside hypotheses really is a scandal of Piltdown proportions.
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Oh, for heaven's sake.
Kevin Hunt's study of chimpanzees in Gombe found a level of "bipedalism" of 2-3%. 80% of those instances were in trees whilst >50% of their body wt was on hindlimbs. If he'd have studied bonobos in the Congo, wading would have dwarfed those figures. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...
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They all know "it's" wrong but they can't even tell you what "it" is. Pseudoskeptics.
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Please explain. Waist deep water is the one and only scenario that will compel an otherwise quadrupedal ape to move bipedally without the support of the upper limbs, for as long as the conditions prevail. It is 100% consistent with the fossil record. For example Lucy's Hadar was a wetland for 1Mys.
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The Wading hypothesis, to cite just one out of a dozen, is head and shoulders above the other published ideas in terms of evidence and plausibility. Richard Wrangham, Chris Stringer and others have given some support over the years, but to back Elaine Morgan is still seen as a career ending act.
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I returned to academia 30 yrs ago to do just that. MSc (with distinction) under Leslie Aiello @UCL & PhD under Charles Oxnard @UWA. I've done a lot of work, but to no avail. People like Pontzer stand as the gatekeepers of the truth at academic journals. He's sure it's wrong but can't quite say why.
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Nonsense. Waterside hypotheses of human evolution are entirely plausible and evidence-based.
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Gutsick Gibbon is usually pretty good but this video is not. She cherry picks a very dodgy proponent as a straw man to knock over. Notice the pseudo-sciencey image she uses. Why not one of the many authentic photos/videos of wading apes?
youtu.be/WeR5lxWXbOU?...
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Such confidence. Perhaps Herman Pontzer might actually cite a paper where the idea was even defined properly, let alone rebutted.
See www.whattalks.com
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Where is the push back?
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Where is the push back?
A few weeks ago there seemed to be some momentum growing against crooktraitor Trump but that seems to have dwindled. Have people given up or have authorities started clamping down on demos?
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What we're witnessing is effectively a coup d'etat. Currently, the Kremlin is in charge of the White House.
It's not something anyone wants to seriously consider, perhaps understandably. But the longer influencers stay quiet about this, the more difficult it will be for America to push back.
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In science we invoke Occam's Razor: test the simplest hypothesis before considering more complex ones. With Trump, the simplest hypothesis is that he's a Kremlin agent. Yet very few of the experts, or professionals who are paid to understand these things, dare even hint at the possibility.
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Haideți, române... Nu vă băgați în seamă cu marioneta rusească!
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I disagree. As long as you check the answers and maintain a level of scepticism it can be a very powerful research tool.
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Any queries with the data welcomed.
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It was eleven years ago.
Moscovia has committed 40,000+ more war crimes since this.
I guess in half a million years, Moscovia's Kleptofascist terrorists can expect justice.
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Moscovia is a terrorist state.
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I don't know why my FB stream is suddenly filled with your video clips, but I'm glad it gave me a heads up about your great work.
Please keep doing what you're doing.
My only query is: have you ever made the point to a MAGA cultist that Trump might actually be a Kremlin asset? If not, why not?
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Moscovian terrorist bastards.
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Lock Him Up, for "God's" sake.
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KGB man.
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Excellent summary.
Just misses one, tiny, point: the orange-faced crooktraitor is a Kremlin asset.
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E X T E R M I N A T E ! !
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The most important thing is to realise is that he is a Kremlin asset. We are witnessing a coup d'état of the USA by fascist Russia. All this faux confusion about Trump's motives vis-à-vis Putin would be comical if it were not so serious.
I get it. It's embarrassing. But please do wake up.
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Aw come off it, Chris. Listen to yourself. Women's sport has never been stronger or better respected. You're literally repeating the fascist playbook here.
Are you a closet Trump supporter?
All this because I shared a post showing the science that there is more to sex determination than XX/XY.
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I'd never even heard of CeCe Telfer before this. When I searched Craig Telfer I got info about a Scottish Football Pundit. Clearly this person has triggered a lot of reaction in those looking to get angry about transgender issues, but, please, it really isn't as big a deal as you make out.
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Such hostility. You are playing into the hands of fascists by reacting like this. This is what they want: to whip up hatred against the "LGBTs" you attack. Calm down. It's complicated. Be empathetic, not belligerent, to the minorities... please.
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Chris, the whole point of that post was to show the science is more complex than XX = female, XY = male, which is what the anti-woke brigade want to believe.
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The fascists would have found something else to divide us on, if not this. If the anti-wokers can cite "oh it's a tiny minority etc" so can I. I'd never even heard of these one or two athletes. The finer points of competitive sport is hardly a major issue to fight about.
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Chris, this "they are statistical outliers" argument misses the point. If you are one of those outliers, you are still a human being who deserves total respect and not to be labelled "atypical" and just dismissed.
It's a fascist trope to pretend things are simpler than they area.
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... apart from the last bit. "God" didn't have anything to do with it.
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See also www.whattalks.com and www.riverapes.com
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Thank you for reminding us of that.
She was a wonderful woman and inspired me to return to academia to study these very plausible and evidence-based ideas - for which I prefer the umbrella label "Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution.
My pride and joy...
www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08MB9LMJ...