ANIMAL FORUM

>Ron Gaul wrote in message
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>> > > Now address what the OP actually raised: Goodall, Gould, and Leakey and
>> > > Johansen.
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>> > More recent studies,- limited and fragmented habitat, increased
>> competition.
>> > Show physiological carnivorous adaptation. You cant.
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>> You mean physiological omnivore adaptation.
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>Omnivore = meat eating = carnivorous.
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>> We have medium length intestines
>> like those other omnivores, pigs. There you go.
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>Nature has given mixed teeth, and a mixed organization
>throughout, to match the mixed habits of the genus..
>..the Hog and some of its allies, in certain respects,
>diverge in their structure from the ungulate towards
>the carnivorous type; while conversely, the Bears
>similarly diverge from the carnivorous type towards
>the Ungulata; the result being the same,