Notes: the Ubaid Amphibians...
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The figurines are presented with long heads, almond shaped eyes, long tapered faces and a lizard-type nose. What exactly they represent is completely unknown. According to archaeologists, their postures, such as a female figure breast-feeding, do not suggest that they were ritualistic objects. So what did these lizard figures represent?
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/unanswered-mystery-7000-year-old-ubaid-lizardmen-001116
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"Amphibians!" I said with whimsy in one of last season's posts, and even said as much in a comment thread to a youtube clip about the Ubaid by vlad9vt....since, I've noted, vlad9vt has been calling the figurines amphibians...and he suggests they are a lost humanoid species...lost in that there is no fossil remains of them...fossil remains is all that anyone has to go on about the story of evolution, how one species changed into another, and on and on...curious to know how many species known and unknown...brb...well, the current count is 8.7 million...
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Global biodiversity is the measure of biodiversity on planet Earth and is defined as the total variability of life forms. More than 99 percent of all species[1] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct.[2][3] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 2 million to 1012,[4] of which about 1.74 million have been databased thus far[5] and over 80 percent have not yet been described.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_biodiversity
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there's another way to study evolution, and that is to just look at Nature, study it closely, and puzzle out what is going on...consider mountain lions and mule deer--a mountain lion I never saw in the Valley, but mule deer all the time...mule deer are tame, if you have food, they'll eat from your hand...lions, when hungry, will eat you...the body shapes of lions and deer are derived from the interplay of lions and deer...if running like heck to escape being eaten, or chasiing what can be eaten, can be called 'interplay'...but actually, when not involved in seriousness, lions and deer are playful, reveling in what they can do with their bodies....so, looking at them, wondering about them the way John Muir wondered about glaciers and the shaping of Yosemite Valley, one gets the sense that over a span of great time any manner of miracle can happen with regard to species evolution...at the Zoo one can see varieties of species, and what one is seeing is the latest descendants of a long chain of a species morphing from one shape to another...to not see this on and on is to be blind...blind prejudice I think it is called...brb...well, there are pages about the evolution of prejudice!...lol...anyway, be that as it may, I watched a clip of a girl wading around in a swamp with a long stick, a pole, with the end split so it had like three of four tongs...when she stabbed the stick through a fish, the tongs spread apart, and the fish couldn't slide off...it was the simplest of hunting tools I'd ever seen...though I've read Lady With A Spear, and so familiar with pole spear fishing in the ocean...as the girl waded, she collected snakes, and frogs, and all manner of aquatic creatures...and filled her bag hanging from her hip...she didn't wade deep, up to her knees and thighs, and I wondered how she avoided leaches, poisonous snakes, snapping turtles, and such...the clip was from South Asia somewhere I think...brb
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlM7DMWuhI
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and, that's that...the spears they have, this clip from Australia, are universals...the pole with split end...somewhere back in the mists of time, a tree dwelling simian in a swamp evolved to wade in the swamp, one to get away from predators, the other to gather food...there could well have been parallel evolutions around the world, but more likely it happened once, in one place, and this aquatic ape spread...but, not before learning to work with reeds...build reed boats...and with them, spread along the coasts of the continents...being tall to wade was a plus...not too tall not too short...species always get trimmed at both ends to fit the bed!...lol...by bed, I mean their ecological niche...the split end spear evolved into a pole with a stone spear point...this aquatic ape, soon to be human, began flinging its spears at dry land prey, and then began the great hunt!, and the move to dry land, the great savannahs...how long each of these steps took is anyone's guess...a million years here, a million years there, soon, we're talking real change...now, the changes that the swamps brought on were in turn changed by the changes the Savannahs brought on...things go that way sometime...Whales and Dolphins evolved from land mammals, which in turn evolved from lizards and such (this is kind of iffy), which in turned evolved from the first fish that walked out, oddly, this thought to be the fish like mud fish that walk around swamps...so, a species lineage can have a history of being on/in water land and back to on/in water/land...sea turtles return to land to lay their eggs...(Black Dragons return from outer space to lay their eggs on Earth, but that's for sometime!)...the reason species change is because something critical about their niche changes, and to continue they have to change...humans on the savannahs didn't forget their watery past skills...they continued to make reed boats, hunt with split spears, and added wooden boats, and stone spears, all the other technologies of today...the past by the seashore hasn't been forgotten...just witness fishermen on a pier, happy as can be, even not catching a thing...'I'd rather be fishing', one meme, another, 'nothing better than messing around in a boat'...our fondness for the shore extends to just laying out on it like so many seals, walruses, elephant seals and such....is this far fetched!?...well, it's known apes use small sticks to get at things, and as for the reed boats and huts...consider beavers and their dams, and I rest my case!...so, the Ubaid lizard people were the aquatic apes that evolved even further into the swamp niche...closing in on being amphibians...and they were still around when Ubaid culture flourished, remnants of a species that found home where the rivers empty into the Persian Gulf...what may have happened, is that when the Ice Age ended, and the oceans rose like 400 feet, the more amphibious of the humans species...by now, the aquatic ape had evolved different land, and coastal versions...the more amphibious lost out to the more land like...and they went extinct...well, the species lineage still goes on, so, like that version, model, of a species in the family tree was left behind...no sure fossils of the amphibious humans will ever be found, their homes, ephemeral as they were, gone, their bones under four hundred feet of water...but, the Sumerians seem to have seen them in the flesh, along with other strange species, so, whose to say what a shovel might turn up someday?...odd thing about our bones, they are heavy, dense, and proponents of the aquatic ape theory point to this: the heaviness kept us weighted down when wading (oh, another thing, while editing, scuba students soon learn that we sink...we're negative buoyant, unlike most mammals that float and swim)...contrary, tree dwelling apes have light bones...or some such...right now, the 'intelligence sense', is thought unique to human beings, some more some less!...but an inkling that it is maybe not so unique happens when observing dolphins, octopi, lobsters, cat videos, and mule deer...mountain lions in zoos look terribly bored...then there's the dog on the exercise big ball...I dunno!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptcg-50Ib9A
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DavidDavid
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