> http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/pseudoscience/aquatic_ape_theory.html

> This guy John Hawks seems like a pretty level headed
> guy.  He also seems to be more forthright than most anthropologists.
> Most anthropologists, Jason being
> a good example, hold their cards very close to their
> chest and are careful not to draw attention to the
> paradigm crisis that currently exists in the field of
> paleoanthropology.

> But Hawks just lays it out for us.  In one part of
> his weblog he states the following:

> "Human minds (at least the parts not shared with
> chimpanzee minds) have been evolving for around six
> million years. At present, anthropology knows
> relatively little about how this happened."

> It's just very unusual for anthropologists to make
> honest statements like this and not do what
> anthropologists typically do and hide behind some
> notion that is so poorly defined that it can mean
> just about anything to anybody.

> I'd like to see him give me some feedback on my
> Ecological Gatekeeper Hypothesis.  I'd like to see
> if he can reconcile a true group selective scenario.

> > http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/pseudoscience/aquatic_ape_theory.html

> > This guy John Hawks seems like a pretty level headed
> > guy.  He also seems to be more forthright than most anthropologists.
> > Most anthropologists, Jason being
> > a good example, hold their cards very close to their
> > chest and are careful not to draw attention to the
> > paradigm crisis that currently exists in the field of
> > paleoanthropology.

> > But Hawks just lays it out for us.  In one part of
> > his weblog he states the following:

> > "Human minds (at least the parts not shared with
> > chimpanzee minds) have been evolving for around six
> > million years. At present, anthropology knows
> > relatively little about how this happened."

> > It's just very unusual for anthropologists to make
> > honest statements like this and not do what
> > anthropologists typically do and hide behind some
> > notion that is so poorly defined that it can mean
> > just about anything to anybody.

> > I'd like to see him give me some feedback on my
> > Ecological Gatekeeper Hypothesis.  I'd like to see
> > if he can reconcile a true group selective scenario.

> I'd like to see that, too, Dimmy.

> I'd like to see that, too, Dimmy.  Maybe you should
> send him a link to your hypothesis...?  Or would you
> like me to do that for yas?

>         Whoa, it was a long time since I didn't hear such a great
oxymoron.
> How come Jois doesn't put this into her sign?
>         "A mind that evolved for six million years, knows relatively
> little." Now that was a good one, lol. -- Mario