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Traditional PA mistakes: afro+anthropocentric prejudices

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Subject: Traditional PA mistakes: afro+anthropocentric prejudices
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by: marc verhaegen - Thu, 6 Apr 2023 08:43 UTC

Afro+anthropocentric prejudices:

-- Austalopiths are no human ancestors (anthropocentric prejudice), but were fossil relatives of Pan or Gorilla.
-- Out-of-Africa is wrong (afrocentric prejudice): Pliocene Homo lived along southern Asian coasts.
-- Miocene "apes" were no quadrupedal knuckle-walkers (anthropocentric prejudice), but swamp-forest dwellers, already "bipedal" (aquarboreal).
-- Plio-Pleistocene human ancestors did not live in savannas, certainly not hunting (afro+anthropocentric fantasy), but have always been waterside.

IOW, paleo-anthropology before "coastal dispersal" (aquatic ape) is at least as wrong as geology was before "plate tectonics" (continental drift).

Google:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169534702024904
https://www.gondwanatalks.com/l/the-waterside-hypothesis-wading-led-to-upright-walking-in-early-humans/

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Traditional PA mistakes: afro+anthropocentric prejudices	marc verhaegen