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Self-professedly biased explanation of the Aquatic Ape theory and competing theories for the evolution of humans.
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Aquatic Ape Info I happen to be the grandson of Elaine Morgan, who writes most of the stuff about the AAT, so I made this page anyway. News I update this site rarely, so news may be the wrong word. March 2000 The...Paper by Marc J. M. Verhaegen, published in Speculations in Science and Technology.
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvanee...eculationsScienceTechnology.html
Papers from a symposium at University Gent, Flanders, Belgium.
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Symposium.html
A Straight Dope column criticizing the aquatic ape hypothesis.
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Straight Dope Staff Report: Did humans descend from aquatic apes Did humans descend from aquatic apes 22-Jan-2002 Dear Straight Dope: A few years ago, Elaine Morgan published a book called The Aquatic Ape that publicized a theory that humans, at some time in their evolution, had partially adapted to a...Promotes a variation on the aquatic ape theory that suggests humans evolved from two hominids that were adapted to a water-side habitat.
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River Apes Coastal People Some questions to ask about our species Homo sapiens: How do you explain the differences between us and our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom, chimpanzees and gorillas? u Why is it that we get from place to place on...Short article of speculation by Michael Hyson, focusing on a 6.5 million year gap in the human fossil record, during which time we evolved many of our human characteristics.
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Aquatic Ape Theory Cetacea dolphins and whales walruses, manatees, dugongs, and even elephants (who have been seen swimming some 25 miles at sea crossing between islands We have noses that trap air and allow us to swim and dive, subcutaneous fat, salt tears...Two electronic books written by Denis Montgomery. The books may also be downloaded in PDF format.
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Aquatic Ape Theory,African Eve,African pre-history,African Travel Books Africa and was sustained there by our core-population during the several climatic traumas of the Pleistocene Epoch. Migrations of Homo species, the Out-of-Africa emigration and the people who remained behind are examined with latest insights. AQUATIC MAN AND AFRICAN EVE...A critique of the aquatic ape theory, with examples refuting the basic premises of the theory.
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Aquatic Ape Theory (AAT Sink or Swim? False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness: and when this is...Article describes an alternative hypothesis on human origins advanced by author Elaine Morgan.
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allAfrica.com: South Africa: Dolphins may have been our ancestors Dolphins may have been our ancestors Email This Page Print This Page VisitThePublisher'sSite Mail Guardian (Johannesburg) January 8, 1999 Posted to the web January 8, 1999 Johannesburg Characteristics that distinguish us from apes may have been forced on our ancestors...Paper by Marc J. M. Verhaegen, published in Speculations in Science and Technology.
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Aquatic ape theory and speech origins: a hypothesis Marc J. M. Verhaegen Speculations in Science and Technology 11, 165-171 (1988) Received: March 1987 Abstract The question of speech origins is discussed in the light of the theory that humans had...Papers from a symposium at University Gent, Flanders, Belgium.
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Symposium Symposium Water and Human Evolution April 30th 1999 University Gent, Flanders, Belgium Programme Report Proceedings: Elaine Morgan (Mountain Ash, Wales, UK) Marc Verhaegen (Putte, Flanders, Belgium) Erika Schagatay (Lund, Sweden) Armand Christophe (Gent, Flanders, Belgium) Stephen C. Cunnane (Toronto, Canada)...