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    Human Evolution: the water theory.


    Bipedalism, loss of body hair, subcutaneous fat,

    speech.



    Aquatic ape theory.



    Wed, Jan 16, 2008  Permanent link

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    meika     Wed, Jan 16, 2008  Permanent link
    I've always loved Elaine Morgan's theory. Mostly because it shows science is at its best when considering a series of hypotheses. Elaine morgan raises some fascinating interpretations on why we humans, for example, can have such a well developed layer of subcutaneous fat among the apes. It raises questions about our evolution that need answering, even if this option eventually fails.
    3LSZVJA9     Fri, Jan 18, 2008  Permanent link
    I feel the same way.
    I like it when simple new ideas are able to turn the tables like this.
    I particularly like how the explanation of our power of speech comes out,
    it makes us less alien.
    Michael Garrett     Fri, Jan 18, 2008  Permanent link
    I have to agree as well with everything Meika said. Also, water has been an essential companion in our march toward civilization, not only in agriculture and fishing, but transportation, communication and colonization. We still like to get into it and splash around some too.
    nagash     Tue, Sep 29, 2009  Permanent link
    gaaaah!

    I was about to create a post about this paper when I suddenly decided to use the site's search and check if someone else did it before... and, you did!
    also, the image you choose to illustrate it is way better to the one I was going to use...


    3LSZVJA9     Wed, Sep 30, 2009  Permanent link
    This one is also good.

    meika     Tue, Jan 19, 2010  Permanent link
    We believe that on the far southern shore of Africa there was a small population of modern humans who struggled through the glacial period 125,000 to 195,000 years ago using shellfish and advanced technologies, and symbolism was important to their social relations. It is possible that this population could be the progenitor population for all modern humans,“ Marean said.


    and

    Until now, one of the main reasons for doubting the “Out Of Africa” theory was the existence of inconsistent evidence in Australia. The skeletal and tool remains that have been found there are strikingly different from those elsewhere on the “coastal expressway” – the route through South Asia taken by the early settlers.

    [...]

    Geneticist Dr Peter Forster, who led the research, said: “Although it has been speculated that the populations of Australia and New Guinea came from the same ancestors, the fossil record differs so significantly it has been difficult to prove. For the first time, this evidence gives us a genetic link showing that the Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean populations are descended directly from the same specific group of people who emerged from the African migration.”


    Even today Tasmania Aboriginal Palawa women make small shell necklaces like at Blombos, South Africa, and the Cave of Pigeons in Taforalt, eastern Morocco.

    82,000 years ago









    in Tasmania Today

    Semi-Aquatic Ape (after bottleneck survival population on South African coast).
     
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