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Page history last edited by PBworks 15 years, 10 months ago

Water and Human Evolution

 

 

The hypothesis proposes that the physical characteristics that distinguish us from our nearest cousin apes - standing and moving bipedally, being naked and sweaty, our swimming and diving abilities, fat babies, big brains and language - all of these and others are best explained as adaptations to a prolonged period of our evolutionary history being spent in and around the seashore and lake margins, not on the hot dry savannah or in the forest with the other apes.

 

Very good AUDIO - Presented by Sir David Attenborough Scars of Evolution is a two part series looking at the history and current status of the 'aquatic ape hypothesis' (AAH), first proposed 45 years ago by Sir Alister Hardy, then elaborated and developed by Elaine Morgan and others.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/scarsofevolution.shtml

 

 

And this is a very interesting

http://www.aquaticape.org

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