Spearfishing
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Astros...top of second...Pujols lead off hit...no score...Doom (Verlander) on the mound for Astros...rookie Parker up...K...and, DP...to bottom of second...
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Two succulent plant genera, Euphorbia and Astrophytum, are only distantly related, but the species within each have converged on a similar body form.
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
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home run for Astros...Astros 1-0...hmmph...as it is often explained, humanity comes from one stock, and proof of that is that we can all mate with one another...that's one of the defining things of a species...and, so the story goes, from one location, likely Africa, people spread around the globe, and, this all happened so long ago, that since, people have come to have superficial adaptions to their different environments...Astros made out..to top of third...Renigfo up...
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As far back as the 1800s, Arthur Thomson - a British anatomist and anthropologist - pointed out that long, thin noses tended to occur in colder, drier regions, whereas shorter, wider noses more often appeared in hotter, more humid areas. This rule is now referred to as Thomson's nose rule.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/316411.php
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something like that...Regnifo K...Fletcher, batting ninth, up...somewhere along the way we learned to make tools...and the before and after of tool making is way back there...if that happened when we were all in one place, then we took that skill, or skills, with...how to make fire, how to shape stones into spear points, axes, scrapers, and such...Calhoun with a home run...Angels 2-1...Fletch got on somehow...missed that...Trout up...and right then, the argument begins...is civilization convergent, or diffusion...I dunno...and that because no one wrote it down!, and that's what the archaeologists are about, trying to read in the artifact record, what happened...Trout makes out...Ohtani up...outahere!...home run...Angels 3-1...oh, Doom is fuming on the mound for sure...a veritable volcano...happy birthday to Ohtani...25...so, so, having thought long on this, three kinds of tools got us going: the cane spear with the prong end, the fish hook, and how to make twine and rope for fishing lines and fishing nets...that later skill, making twine, the gateway to a host of things, like reed huts and reed boats...for a long, long time people lived in reed swampy environments with just these skills...it was enough...catch all the food you want, and avoid being caught by living in the swamp, a natural moat against lions and wolves...just be careful of the crocodiles, boa snakes, hippos and such!...I dunno...this is whimsy of course...but, for a reach, a looksee at cane spears, fish hooks, twine, and reed houses and boats!...Angels made out...Astros have a runner on second...two down...Altuve up...I read somewhere that long hair is so infants can hang on while mom is wading, foraging for clams...Altuve ground out...to top of fourth...
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The practicality of having long hair in the water works both ways. Children's hair starts to grow at once, and quickly, and by the time they are a few years old, their hair is long enough to grab - especially useful with boisterous toddlers splashing around in the shallows who may get into difficulties. It's much easier for any adults nearby to grab the youngsters’ hair if they find themselves in deep water or fast currents, slipping out of reach.
from the Aquatic Human Ancestor web sitre
http://aquatic-human-ancestor.org/anatomy/hair.html
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Some of the earliest apes from this time period come from coastal forest deposits, such as Heliopithecus from the Arabian Gulf (18 Ma) and Austriacopithecus from Slovakia (14 Ma). From 14 to 7 Ma, in southern Europe, apes are commonly found in swamp forests and reed marshes, including Pierolapithecus and Hispanopithecus from Catalonia, Rudapithecus from Hungary, Dryopithecus from France, and Oreopithecus from the then island of Tosco-Sardinian. In China, Lufengpithecus is known from swamp forests from about 10–5 Ma.
http://aquatic-human-ancestor.org/timeline.html
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well, hooey, site has my reach!...I don't know what Ma is...brb...million years...that, that's spot on!!...take a bit to see if site has anything on spears, fish hooks, twine and reeds!...brb...Lucroy with two out double...Angels make out...
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Outward facing nostrils would be quite a hindrance to inhabiting areas that involved being submerged in water for long periods of time. But by protruding outwards and forcing the nostrils to face the floor, it is possible for a person holding their head upright to bob their head under the water without water entering the airways - air trapped in the nose prevents any water entering. This gives the bearer of an external nose an advantage of 1 or 2 minutes under water without having to resurface.
Furthermore, the outer side of the nose has an excellent shape for swimming forwards. Its streamlined surface ensures that while swimming head down and forwards at a speed, all incoming water flows with the least amount of resistance around the face. Moreover, due to the conical shape of the nose, all water rolls away from the nostrils, diminishing the chance of it entering the airways.'
Post-publication addendum:
The importance of downwards facing nostrils in diving is evident when viewing instances of chimpanzees trying to dive. There have been a few reports of chimps diving, and in all the examples seen, the chimps are grabbing at their face in order to cover their nostrils whilst submerge themselves.
http://aquatic-human-ancestor.org/anatomy/nose.html
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apes and monkeys hate water...Zoos put them on islands with moat around them...bottom of fourth...one down..
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"A diet including foods rich in DHA such as fish, shell fish, turtles and sea bird eggs would have been a significant advantage for early human brain growth and the subsequent development of the complex neuronal networks that characterize the abstract thought processes that are uniquely human (see table below)." [16]
http://aquatic-human-ancestor.org/evidence/diet.html
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Astros wap a double...but runner doesn't come to home...runners now at second and third...fc, run scores...Angels 3-2...
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Their knowledge of the sea enables them to live off its fauna and flora by using simple tools such as nets and spears to forage for food.
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The Moken have lived as stateless, indigenous sea nomads in the waters off Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand for almost 4,000 years. They are the very last people who still see the ocean as a place to live their entire lives. The Moken are known for their incredible free-diving capabilities, and historically lived full-time in their traditional boats called kabang. The Moken are Earth’s last marine nomads with a culture that focuses on sustainable interaction with all marine environments, and have survived this way since the Stone Age. They treat the ocean with the respect it deserves.
http://aquatic-human-ancestor.org/evidence/sea-gypsies.html
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well, my reach is done!...I must have read all that awhile back, as I do remember the sensation the aquatic ape theory made...lol...Astros made out...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearfishing#History
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Calhoun up, waps a double...Trout up...fly out...Ohtani up...reed boat, split end spear...that is some kind of toponym...an oft seen scene in Egyptian iconography...ground out...to bottom of fifth...two down...here is site about North American Indian spearfishing techniques ...Astros made out...to top of sixth...Simmons leads off with a home run...Angels 4-2...
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The Hupa, like many tribes in the area, fish for salmon in the Klamath and Trinity rivers. One of the methods they once used to capture fish was the fish weir, which tribal members would maintain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hupa
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just a cool pic...Angels made out...to bottom of sixth...Astros with two on...a take on evolution that may be gone on about somewhere is: do species copy one another?, this rather than going through the effort of adapting...thought is the fishing spear came from watching birds like Great Blue Herons spear fish; making thread from watching spiders; make fishing throw nets from watching Pelicans scoop up birds; making reed houses from watching birds make nests;...mimcry is a big thing in Nature...but I dunno if different species copy one another on the scale of how to get food...obviously people do it all the time...we don't so much learn things, but copy them...two down runners still at second and third...this mimicry another aspect of 'artist and artisan'...artists invent, artisans copy...the Wright brothers studied birds wings, the new scientific fastidiousness making them note the curve in the wings that gives them lift...
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The Wright brothers also did a great deal of studying on the flight of birds. They observed that birds soared into the wind and that the air flowing over the curved surface of their wings created lift.
https://blogs.bu.edu/biolocomotion/2011/10/18/the-wright-brothers-flyer/
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Astros make out...a curio is the modern effort, mania!, to invent new things just to invent new things...things that can be without any practical purpose!...to top of seventh...and the ancients mimicked, copied, the movement of the sun and moon and earth and stars...which in a hurry got really elaborate...sea shore folk will have noted the tides, and the moon's relation to them...
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Researchers are speculating that the Mayans constructed some of Mexico’s ancient pyramids to reverberate with peculiar “raindrop music” ~ the sound of raindrops falling into a bucket of water ~ as people climbed them.
For years archaeologists have been familiar with the raindrop sounds made by footsteps on El Castillo, a hollow pyramid on the Yucatán Peninsula. But why the steps should sound like this and whether the effect was intentional remained unclear.
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site came up because it is titled 'Ancient Tides'...but, has nothing about the ancients and tides!...lol...who's up?...Astros...one down bottom of seventh...Astros make out...to top of eighth...Angels 4-2...here's a bit with thread comments going on about the ancient Greeks and their thoughts about the Moon and Tides,,,it's a wonder...woops...Troutahere!...home run for Trout...Angels 5-2...Astros relieved Verlander, Doom, who may well take the loss...Ohtani up...chopper, and out...Simmons up...Simmons so great on defense!...it's a wonder when ancients noted tides and relation to Moon...a real, 'aha!' moment...Angels make out...to bottom of eighth...
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Recent advances in archaeology, chronobiology, and history of science
have made it possible to decipher hitherto obscure passages related
to planets in the Indian books of the third millennium BC. A
brief summary of this knowledge is presented. It is argued that the
period of Mercury was obtained near the end of the Vedic age in India.
This was celebrated in terms of the famous myth of Vishnu striding
across the heavens in three steps. Once the planetary model was in
place the gods of the planets were transferred into the inner psychological
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For example, ddler crabs, in their natural habitat on the shore, burrow
themselves during high-tide, emerging when the tide recedes to feed, mate,and challenge each other. When these crabs are removed to the laboratory
and held in an incubator with constant conditions, they still run around in
their containers during the time of each low tide. According to J.D. Palmer,
\So accurate are their responses that the students working in the lab use the
crab behavior patterns, rather than the tide tables of the Geodetic Survey,
to plan their eld trips to the crab's old home 30 miles across Cape Cod...
How do crabs do it? It is not yet known." (Palmer 1976) Not only crabs but
all living creatures have extremely precise inner cycles.
In humans the menstrual period has by tradition been taken to correspond
to the moon's motion; in fact \menses" means lunar month. New researchsupports this:
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It has been a surprise (e.g. Winfree 1987) that the fundamental circadian
rhythm inside us is not the 24-hour one related to the motion of the sunbut rather the 24 hour 50 minute one according to the period of the moon,
since each moonrise is 50 minutes later than the preceding one. We share
this approximately 24-hour-50-minute clock with monkeys and other nonhumans.
This 24-hour-50-minute clock was discovered by the moderns only about
30 years ago in experiments on a blind squirrel monkey.
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/kak/plan.pdf
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that, that's just weird...but Sumerian, Egyptian, all the ancient gods and gods echo this astronomical understory...home run...Angels 5-4...Doom off the hook...cant lose, cant win...fly out...to top of ninth...Angels need more runs!!!...
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Life on earth would be quite different without our natural satellite. Most would agree that the daily rising and falling of the moon, along with the monthly waxing and waning cycles, have effects on our oceans and seas. The tides are crucial to life: tidal pools, sheltered and renewed in rhythm with these cycles, catalyzed some of the first stable ecologies and still represent unique niches. While it may not be as widely recognized yet, it is becoming more clear that the moon also affects the flow of water through plants: sap moves more vigorously during the waxing phase as the moon grows to full, and slows down as the moon wanes to a thin morning crescent.
Can moonlight affect plant growth?
https://permacultureprinciples.com/post/moonlight-affect-plant-growth/
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Parker made out out...Lucroy up...K...Regnifo up...base hit...Fletcher up...Regnifo thrown out stealing...to bottom of ninth...full count...Robles on mound for Angels...grounder to Regnifo at second...one down...0-2 the count...two long foul balls...K...two down!...1-0 count...1-1...'grounder to Simmons...and the ball game is over!'...put a halo over this one...cool...
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