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Don’t forget that before the Black Sea flood, two thirds of the current sea’s surface area was a fresh water lake. Maybe we were amphibious.
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I never heard of that most of the ocean was ever fresh water. If that’s true, that’s very important to me.
But your saying we were amphibious is VERY important.
There seems little doubt that we were water beings at one point. Human babies born in water hold their breath and swim to the top. The interesting thing is that THOSE babies don’t cry when they are born. It is a beautiful way to give birth, and a small number of women choose it. But circumcision shows us that vanishingly few people care about any agony they inflict on infants, so, despite the success of this method and the happiness of hte newborn, it will always be a tiny minority.
Dr. Leakey’s wife, after his death, kept talking about the semiamphibious phase of human evolution, but anthropologists almost literally shouted her down. They said it wasn’t worth going into because it couldn’t be tested. They never say that about racial equality theories.
But that semiamphibious phase is dhown by the fact that we not only lost our hair, but the tiny hairs we do have (We have as many hairs as an ape, but they are tiny) are pointed in the directions most convenient for swimming. That probably happened when the hairs were still large and were a real hindrance in the water.
As you know, dolphines developed their big brains in water, and it is very likely we did, too. I forget the long list of traits that prove it, but there is no doubt we were a water being for a long time.
Now THIS is what I mean by BASIC thinking. Peter took what I said about traveling on the coasts and expanded it into an area I knew about but did not connect up. This is the sort of basic deductions that MUST live on after I die.
#1 by Pain on 12/20/2006 - 3:37 pm
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Thanks!
“…two thirds of the current sea’s surface area was a fresh water lake.” I should have specified that I meant the Black sea.
But even so, I am not the first to notice that we are aquatic. Have you ever noticed that many (most?) blacks cannot swim and are petrified of deep water. If you were to visit a Naval boot camp right now, you would find the remedial swim classes packed with blacks. I think the reason is that compared to whites, blacks have a smaller chest cavity. A larger chest cavity holds more air which helps us float. Blacks also have a lower percentage of body fat. Fat aids in floating. I have known more than a few fat people who hate any aerobic activity, but are strong swimmers. They float well.
Animals that swim a lot tend to have oily skin. Among dogs for example, retrievers are famous swimmers. They tend to get oily quickly, and if they are not allowed to swim nor given a bath often, they will start to stink. Oil keeps the skin from drying out. Water washes oil from the skin. So swimmers need to replenish their skin’s olils. The reason I say this is that Far East Asians have larger chest cavities than blacks, but their skin is not as oily as ours. This means they will never stink, but it suggests that they are not meant for water like we are.
So taking into account our large chest activities that hold air, slightly higher body fat ratios, and our skin’s ability to replenish its oils quickly, it seems we whites were intended for an aquatic lifestyle.
We are physically fit for living by the sea and waters, but our history is full of the importance of the sea. Ancient Greek civilization was based on the sea: on sea-trade, fishing, and colonies scattered on the coast throughout the Mediterranean. All the Nordic countries have always had a strong relationship with the sea from the Vikings to herring to lytefisk. England became great and settled America from her base on a large island in the sea.
Anyway these are what I was thinking when I said we may have been amphibious. If the Black Sea were the Urheimat, this would fit.
The question is exactly how much of the current Black Sea was a lake and when. Maybe the “two-thirds” estimate needs to be reconsidered.
#2 by CL on 12/20/2006 - 10:32 pm
This got me thinking about the book _Black Sea Sketches_ I got from “Chronicles” a few years back. The author, William Mills, mentions in passing that the bottom of the Black Sea is still fresh water (I’m going from memory). The first I’d ever heard of this was in some of Zecharia Sitchin’s stuff. He mentioned it as proof of the validity of “great floods,” particularly THE GREAT FLOOD. I didn’t make much of it at the time, but immediately took notice when Mills made the same comment in a “respectable” publication. (I suppose there are different levels of respectability, eh?) Anyway, Sitchin also makes a big deal in his cosmology about Mount Ararat. I actually couldn’t find it on the map until I read him–not that I’d been looking. I forget which one, but the view of Ararat from one of the Caucasus capitols is one of the most beautiful scenes on Earth. The picture is on the net somewhere. I wish I had a page reference from Mills’excellent book, but alas it has no index.
A Black Sea home is consistent with a lot of things, including the well known arrival of European peoples from the nebulous “Central Asia.” It also squares with the “Chinese” mummy discoveries. It never made sense to me that we would all and only have gone west.
#3 by CL on 12/20/2006 - 10:45 pm
To continue this stream of consciousness, let me also observe that when the Central Asia exodus is mentioned (which isn’t often), along with a complete lack of specific starting point (and thus complete lack of archeology, which is inexplicable) is a complete lack of reason. What passes as “explanation” is that we were run-out by some nasty pre-historic Ghengis Khan types. This is nonsense not just in retrospect, but in light of the logistics necessary to carry out such a move.
The Black Sea would fit all of this to a T.
#4 by CL on 12/20/2006 - 10:52 pm
Re Black Sea freshwater–
It’s the salt water at the bottom with some freshwater at the top (density, duh). I now think Mills was saying that there are freshwater fossils aplenty there–and that’s what was news to me.