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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (7485)	6/13/2000 10:47:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

in order to grow their brains, The Australapithecine with their shorter gut could survive on their mixed carnivorous diet. They did not however have a larger brain than their chimpanzee relatives. The additional capacity was instead balanced by longer legs and a stockier build than the chimps. When the ice retreated, and the forests grew, some of these apes who still had at least recessive genes for a longer intestine moved back into the forest (New forming forests, not those already dominated by chimps). The others had to increase their nomadic range, and look for new grasslands. As they moved farther north and into the middle east they generation by generation encountered new foods, new enemies. This began to favor the apes which were quick at adapting to novel situations. These apes had larger brains and relatively smaller bodies. The apes that discovered tools are now known as homo-erectus. Their brains were 50% larger than chimps (and the apes that returned to the forest) or about 2/3 the size of the modern brain. TP There was another severe ice age to come.