Chimps on treadmills offer evolution insight - Page 2

tw · 08-10-2007, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Which proves humans are just the spawn of the lazy, opportunistic, pickers of low hanging fruit.

We've already demonstrated that humans will pick on each other rather than pick fruit. Is that also based in evolution?

08-13-2007, 01:24 AM

Yeah, those lazy humans and their agriculture and architecture.

deadbeater · 08-13-2007, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by yesman065

According to the arboreal theory - "Human ancestors evolved to upright bipedalism as an adaptation to forage for ripe fruit in the trees' peripheries."

Really now, doesn't that mean that bipedalism lends oneself to better swinging and climbing?

xoxoxoBruce · 08-13-2007, 05:49 PM

No, it's being able to reach from the ground.

Ibby · 08-13-2007, 08:20 PM

Four legs gooood! Two legs baaaaad!

xoxoxoBruce · 08-13-2007, 09:36 PM

Shame on ewe.

Flint · 08-13-2007, 09:40 PM

Four legs good! Two legs better!

Hagar · 08-14-2007, 01:56 AM

Dunno about you lot, but I evolved upright so as to be better able to bitshlap them uppity geeraffs.

...think they're soo tall.

Griff · 08-14-2007, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

And cheaper! You think human ancestors used illegal migrant monkey labor?

LOL!

08-13-2007, 05:49 PM	#19
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No, it's being able to reach from the ground. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-13-2007, 08:20 PM	#20
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Four legs gooood! Two legs baaaaad! __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

08-13-2007, 09:36 PM	#21
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Shame on ewe. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-13-2007, 09:40 PM	#22
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Four legs good! Two legs better! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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08-13-2007, 01:24 AM	#17
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Yeah, those lazy humans and their agriculture and architecture.

08-14-2007, 01:56 AM	#23
Hagar Master of the Domain Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 220	Dunno about you lot, but I evolved upright so as to be better able to bitshlap them uppity geeraffs. ...think they're soo tall.

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