As mentioned in a previous email, the pro-raw pseudoscience frauds
claim that humans are "naked apes, without tools". An additional
point often included in such claims is that humans are *tropical*
apes.

The pseudoscience types then claim that humans have not evolved or
adapted in any way to colder climates or meat eating, despite substantial
supporting evidence. Here the pseudoscience types not only are
ignoring evolution, but behaving like creationists.

Anyway, yet another paper has been published that discusses human adaptations
to cold. The full  text of the article includes discussion of
morphological changes, but the topic gets little attention in
the abstract (below). As always, one *must* read the full
text to understand the paper.


Journal title:    Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews
Citation details: Volume 13, Issue 4 , Pages 132 - 144

Article: Pleistocene migration routes into the Americas: Human biological
adaptations and environmental constraints
Authors: Roberta Hall, Diana Roy, David Boling

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109580707/ABSTRACT

Abstract
Theories about the routes and timing of human entry into the Americas during
the Late Pleistocene usually involve models of lowered sea levels and ice-free
land in Beringia, supported by locations and dates of archeological sites in
Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America. Recently, paleoecological
reconstructions made possible by advances in geochronology and climatology have
received attention. Now morphological adaptations and environmental constraints
that affect human activities and physiology need to be considered. Physical
accessibility to an area, important as it is, does not alone determine a
migration route. In considering any route, anthropologists need to ask: What
would it have been like to live in this environment? Did it provide an amenable
climate that supported human health and comfort? Between 16,000 and 11,000 cal
BP, did this route provide enough food resources and enough hours of sunlight
for people with an Upper Paleolithic technology to make a living? We discuss
these questions and show ways in which the coastal-entry model is superior to
the interior route through Beringia and an ice-free corridor.

Tom Billings