Gabfly gave an erudite and more thorough explanation. His patience in doing so and you, admitting you were wrong, should perhaps be recognized too.Quote from Max E. Pad:
BTW for stu, and everyone elses sake, i fully admit i was wrong on the fainting goats. I didnt know they were domesticated.
For one thing, wouldn't you think it an obvious evolutionary divergence from the other great apes if nothing else?Quote from Max E. Pad:
Now please prove my stupidity as it pertains to neanderthals losing the ability to swing from trees like monkeys could.
There is overwhelmingly a tremendous advantage in being able to get food at ground level and so, in simplistic evolutionary terms anyway, that was simply going to happen within tree living primates that initially ran there for safety, wasn't it?
Adaptation to the environment, step by step over generations of evolution into distinct species, upright, moving faster on the ground, adapting further abilities to out run all other ground species over long distances.
Not so much losing an ability as you suggest, but rather gaining beneficial ones which result in survival by natural selection.
