Glenn wrote, in part: "The record low temperatures in Beijing which is
near the Majuangou site is 1 degree Fahrenheit with average low
temperatures below freezing from November until March!"
The implicit assumptions you make here, and it may well be justified, is
that weather temperatures 2MY ago were comparable to today and also that
the hominids then were comparable in skin protection (I.e. were not much
hairier) to humans today. Can these assumptions be supported? If not --
particularly the second one, we know that animals with hair survive very
well w/o tents and clothing today in the Arctic; if the hominids of 2MY
ago had similar body hair, they might well have done so too, and this
would weaken your argument somewhat.
John Burgeson (Burgy)
http://www.burgy.50megs.com
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