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Old 10-27-2003, 09:59 PM   #18 (permalink)
Mephisto2
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Originally posted by Shpoop
a little bit off topic, but i found this really cool theory on how humans evolved differently from other apes. It was because one ape started to develop a very aquatic behavior, i.e. the white fat humans have (typical to aquatic mammals), the elevated, more advanced voicebox (again typical to aquatic mammals), and teh fact that humans are one of the only land mammals, and teh only primate, that instinctively holds its breath when put underwater as an infant... there was some more proof but i only remmeber those
This so-called "Aquatic Ape" theory was proposed by Elaine Morgan in her books The Descent of Woman and The Aquatic Ape.

I believe that today it is more or less considered bumkum by paleoanthropologists, evolutionists, geneticists and the established scientific community.

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