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4 "Epistemological"
4.3 Falsifiable or Testable	This criteria evaluates any attempt of the proponent to make falsifiable predictions of their model, or at least subject it to some kind of objective testing. Few models did and the one judged the best was only rated highyl because it at least proposed an explanation that could be (theoretically at least) be disproven in the future.
Models ranked by this criterion.	EFT s8.1.1 Evo Devo mutation / Random Genetic Factors 9 s4.1.4 River Apes / Habitat Compulsion 8 s4.3.1 Variability Selection Hypothesis / Habitat Compulsion 8 s5.4.1 Locomotor de-coupling / Locomotor efficiency 7 s2.3.1 Intra-specific threat displays / Behaviour 6 s2.2.1 Threat displays directed at other species / Behaviour 6 s3.4.2 Specific Hunting / Feeding 6 s4.1.5 Wetland USO foraging / Habitat Compulsion 6 s1.4.1 Weapon Throwing / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 6 s5.5.1 Endurance Running / Locomotor efficiency 6 s1.2.4 Male Provisioning / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 5 s1.5.1 Tool carriage / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 5 s4.1.3 Amphibische Genalistheorie / Habitat Compulsion 5 s6.1.1 Thermoregulatory Hypothesis / Thermoregulation 5 s5.1.1 Slow, long-distance walking / Locomotor efficiency 5 s4.4.2 Arboreal "upwardly mobile" hypothesis / Habitat Compulsion 5 s3.2.1 Postural feeding hypothesis / Feeding 4 s3.4.1 Stalking / Feeding 4 s4.1.2 Aquarboreal Model / Habitat Compulsion 4 s3.1.1 Seed Eating / Feeding 4 s3.1.2 Terrestrial squat feeding on the forest floor / Feeding 4 s3.3.1 Arboreal predation / Feeding 4 s9.1.1 Multi-factorial / Combination 3 s2.1.1 Nuptial Gifts / Behaviour 3 s5.3.1 Efficiency of moving from tree to tree / Locomotor efficiency 3 s1.5.2 Weapon wielding / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 3 s5.2.1 Biomechanical inevitability / Locomotor efficiency 3 s4.4.3 Orang-utan-like hand assisted bipedalism / Habitat Compulsion 3 s7.1.1 Iodine deficiency / Dietary Factors 3 s1.2.3 Migration-carrying hypotheses / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 2 s3.4.3 General scavenging/hunting / Feeding 2 s2.4.1 Sentinel behaviour / Behaviour 2 s2.5.1 Phallic Display directed at females / Behaviour 2 s4.4.1 Descent from arboreal Hylobatian locomotion / Habitat Compulsion 2 s1.2.2 Carrying and scavenging / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 0 s1.1.1 General freeing of the hands / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 0 s3.1.3 Other gathering / Feeding 0 s1.2.1 Carrying food back to gallery forest bases. / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 0 s1.3.1 Female driven infant carrying / Forelimb pre-emption (carrying) 0 s2.6.1 Copied Gimmick Idea / Behaviour 0 s4.1.1 Coastal foraging / Habitat Compulsion 0 s4.2.1 Walking on Snow or mud / Habitat Compulsion 0