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POPSThe Complete World of Human Evolution
A compelling, authoritative, and superbly illustrated account of the rise and eventual domination of our species.Human domination of the earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of the planet began: the earliest apes evolved around twenty million years ago, yet Homo sapiens has existed for a mere 150,000 years. In the intervening period, many species of early ape and human have lived and died out, leaving behind the fossilized remains that have helped to make the detailed picture of our evolution revealed here. This exciting, up-to-the-minute account is divided into three accessible sections. "In Search of Our Ancestors" examines the contexts in which fossilized remains have been found and the techniques used to study them. "The Fossil Evidence" traces in detail the evolution of apes and humans, from Proconsul to the australopithecines, and Homo erectus to the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. The latest fossil finds at major new sites such a
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POPSarchaeocete.org Wadi el-Hitan contains fossils of the extinct suborder of whales, the archaeoceti, that date back about 40 million years
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POPSEmergence of Whales "The first whales are known from the Indo-Pakistan region of the ancient Tethys seaway in early Eocene sediments dating to about 50 million years ago."
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POPSDesert whales Desert whalesForty million years ago a vast area of the northern part of the Egyptian Western Desert was nothing but a sea. The whole of Fayoum was submerged; it was part of the Tethys Sea. In reality, Tethys Sea was so enormously big that some scholars call it Tethys Ocean rather than sea. When it finally receded, it formed what we know today as the Aral, Caspian and Black seas. In its bluish- green water dwelled creatures that evolved and survived or did not and became extinct. One of the biggest inhabitants of the ancient sea was Zeuglodon, the famous whale of Fayoum.
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POPSAAT · shoreline adaptations in the genus Homo Human ancestors lived in warm & water-rich milieus. * Aquatic Ape Theory of human evolution (original term E.Morgan 1982) * Aquarboreal Apes Theory of Mio-Pliocene apes (aqua=water, arbor=tree) * Amphibious Ancestors Theory of Plio-Pleistocene Homo (AAT strict sense) AAT s.s. is based on comparisons of the behavior-anatomy-physiology-DNA of living humans with chimps & other animals. Waterside collection of coconuts, fruits, bird eggs, turtles, shell-, crayfish, waterplants... explains unique Homo traits (not in apes & australopiths) better than plains- or forest-dwelling: brain size, diving skills, breath control, vocality, small mouth & chewing muscles, tongue bone descent, longer airway, projecting nose, poor sense of smell, handiness, tool use, late puberty, long legs, aligned body, poor climbing, plantigrady, midfoot lengthening & toe shortening, fur loss, fatness, profuse sweating, high needs of water, sodium, iodine & poly-unsat.fatty acids... Homo & Pan split ~6-4 Ma.
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POPSTethyan Himalaya : Eduardo Garzanti A complex interplay of tectonic, eustatic and oceanographic processes concurred in the development of ‘drowning unconformities’ at the top of the Giumal clastic shelf. Rapid deepening and waning of both volcanic and quartzo-feldspathic terrigenous detritus are mainly ascribed to the global mid-Cretaceous sea-level rise and to rapid thermo-tectonic subsidence at the end of the short-lived Albian magmatic event, possibly related to a mantle plume rising beneath northern India. Intensification of the east-bound oceanic current off the north margin of India after the final break-up of Gondwanaland was responsible for continuous resuspension and minimal accumulation rates around the shelf-break. The associated coastal upwelling favoured impingement of the oxygen-minimum zone on the outer shelf, with glauco-phosphorite deposition coinciding in time with peak global transgressions and ‘anoxic events’ in the world oceans.
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POPSFossils solve mystery of bat evolution Guardian Unlimited - UK The oldest fossilized bats ever discovered have given palaeontologists an unprecedented insight into the flying mammals' evolution. The find puts to rest a
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POPSStirring find in Xuchang "新华网, China - Jan 27, 2008 Prior to this discovery, scientists had found Hominid fossils in many parts of China - Wushan of Chongqing, Lantian of Shaanxi province, Jinniu of Liaoning"
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POPSEvolution of Life-C OAK:Magister Templi shows how modern science and chaos theory are compatable with advanced metaphysical concepts. This is the OAK 1st Degree study material. Science is not in conflict with paranormal and supernatural activitities.
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