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| | Aquatic ape hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Most adhere to the Savanna Theory, the dominant school of thought among scientists for the past 20 years, which holds that human ancestors evolved in savanna environments. | | | Aquatic Ape Theory: The Most Plausible Explanation of Human Origins from Riverapes.com. | | | Human babies also reflexively hold their breaths both when submerged, as well as swimming without training, though they appear to lack the ability to surface and breathe unassisted. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_Ape_Theory
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| | The Aquatic Ape Theory--Elaine Morgan |
| | AAT points out that most of the "enigmatic" features of human physiology, though rare or even unique among land mammals, are common in aquatic ones. | | | The most widely discussed contrast between ourselves and the apes is that we have bigger brains. | | | It is interesting that the bonobos often mate face-to-face as humans do; in our case it is explained as a consequence of bipedalism. |
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http://www.primitivism.com/aquatic-ape.htm
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| | ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Science/Biology/Evolution/Human/Aquatic_Ape_Theory |
| | Aquatic Ape Theory - Self-professedly biased explanation of the Aquatic Ape theory and competing theories for the evolution of humans. | | | River Apes - Promotes a variation on the aquatic ape theory that suggests humans evolved from two hominids that were adapted to a water-side habitat. | | | - A critique of the aquatic ape theory, with examples refuting the basic premises of the theory. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/directory/Science/Biology/Evolution/Human/Aquatic_Ape_Theory
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| | Aquatic Ape Theory (AAT): Sink or Swim? |
| | The Aquatic Ape Theory (often referred to as the AAT or AAH) says humans went through an aquatic or semi-aquatic stage in our evolution and that this accounts for many features seen in human anatomy and physiology. | | | The diving reflex has been present in terrestrial mammals for centuries, it was in 1995, and it still is, despite the AAT claim to the contrary. | | | The infant swimming response has been present in terrestrial mammals for centuries, it was in 1995, and it still is, despite the AAT claim to the contrary. |
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http://www.aquaticape.org
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| | Sea Shepherd - Ocean Realm Spring 2001 |
| | The most fascinating aspect of this theory however is the fact that humans possess the "diving reflex." The diving reflex, or bradycardia, is a condition that occurs in aquatic and semi aquatic animals. | | | For the inquiring scientist who dares to challenge the "facts," the punishment is usually ridicule, and the deterrent is usually pressure to desist, or else one's career might suffer as a consequence. | | | Probably the best way to examine this theory is to ask what specific features an aquatic animals would be expected to have. |
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http://nederland.seashepherd.org/essays/ocean_realm_spr01.html
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| | The Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | All the other current theories of hominid development are only that - theories, even though the scientific community seems to have a lot vested in them. | | | A most interesting theory but, the idea just like all evolution theories is still based on ideas and no hard evidence. | | | So in light of the idea of man evolving at either location is still just as plausable as the idea that man has always been the way he is. The most interesting thing is that in most cases the idea of man not evolving at all is summarily rejected from the start. |
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http://survive2012.com/aquatic_ape_theory.php
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| | Tim Worstall: The Aquatic Ape Theory. |
| | All "evidence" given for he theory is simply hypothetical and not backed sufficiently by scientific evidence as opose to AAH. | | | 'Aquatic Ape' is about how there was a semi aquatic stage in the process leading to the development of modern humans. | | | What we are and the way we behave can easily be explained with an aquatic theory that involves a global scene. |
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http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2005/05/the_aquatic_ape.html
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| | aat.html |
| | AAT is simply a theory that has been evaluated (and ditched) by most serious anthropologists. | | | Scientific knowledge does change, all the time, and it has been pointed out that science is the worst place to try to hide anything because fraud will be exposed through experiment. | | | regarding the 'Aquatic Ape Theory', be advised of the following points. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~csmith/aat.html
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| | Aquatic Ape Theory - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum |
| | Not as popular as it was a few years ago, Not realy a theory, there isn't that much evidence apart from a few ad-hoc and post-hoc reasons for various parts of the anatomy being the way they are. | | | I remember hearing somewhere that there is a theory that says that (and this gets kind of graphic) when humans began to mate face-to-face rather than... | | | It is difficult to see how all the points assembled to back the Aquatic Theory can be explained away. |
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http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?p=148549#post148549
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| | Straight Dope Staff Report: Did humans descend from "aquatic apes"? |
| | The diving reflex (so-called) is found in all mammals to some degree, terrestrial and aquatic. | | | There is no convincing evidence that any modern human trait evolved as a result of an aquatic past. | | | Further, our ape relatives generally have sparse hair, though not quite as sparse as ours. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/maquaticape.html
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| | The Aquatic Ape - in from the cold? - LLB April '96 |
| | AAT referred to all this as "the savanna theory". | | | The strength of savanna theory lay in its contention that the hominids' habitat was radically different from that of the apes. | | | These anomalies are not a common subject of research. |
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http://www.llb.labournet.org.uk/1996/april/sci.html
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| | IISDS - Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | The theory then makes only one supposition: modern humans are hairless as a result of an adaptation to living on the savannah. | | | Aquatic Ape Theory makes much of the uniqueness of the human descended larynx amongst primates. | | | One might also speculate, for example, that the reason we have no evidence of 600lb male silverback mountain gorillas holding their breaths is the unpleasant consequences of trying to hold one underwater. |
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http://www.clanhouse.com/Ignorance/beliefs/AAT.htm
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| | sciforums.com - Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | The aquatic ape theory is no theory at all, just a bunch of "just-so" stories with no supporting evidence. | | | Q is not a theory and thus does not need to have evidence. | | | This ape theory needs evidence, so the question is: What evidence is there for this? |
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http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=154572
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| | Alister Hardy |
| | So finally, in what he thinks is a clincher to his long-held theory, Hardy offers the diving reflex, but for something which he feels is a powerful vindication of his theory, he seems to have done astonishly little research about it. | | | Unfortunately, the "aquatic ape" turns out to be exceedingly flammable for a water-dweller, and even the slightest criticism burns it beyond hope of recovery. | | | When AAT proponents are confronted about this sort of thing, they usually say there wasn't time for that change (although we'll see that Hardy's scenario offered plenty of time) yet they also say there was plenty of time for other changes (sebaceous glands, for instance) to seal-like features. |
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http://www.aquaticape.org/hardy.html
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| | Aquatic Ape Theory - Page 3 - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum |
| | The idea of human babies having a swimming reflex as proof of the AAT is alos bogus. | | | Seems like most everyone is comparing our hariless ness to other primates in regards to the Aquatic Ape, but it seems we should take a look at mammals at large, especially other aquatic mammals. | | | Experience itself shows this theory to be wrong. |
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http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?p=149824#post149824
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| | sciforums.com - Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | 08-22-02 06:12 PM The theory goes against the traditional belief that we came down from the trees (our primate) relatives and evolved in a desert-like environment, which is why it is seen as bunk by most scientists. | | | As i understood it, it was proposed as a reason for humans having lost all their hair except a little and changing to being bipedal. | | | This is probably the most likely scenario and is supported by the fact that there still isn't a good artifact/hominid--skull/skeleton example of the missing link between Chimps and humans. |
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http://www.sciforums.com/printthread.php?t=10394
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| | Imprint: Science - Adventures in Pseudoscience: The Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | The loss of body hair is a method of facilitating persperation, and the architecture of the human hands reveals that they are better suited to climbing than swimming. | | | The theory was proposed by Elaine Morgan and is based on an idea that first occured to Alister Hardy when he read the following passage: | | | Hardy also noted that humans possess what is known as the diving reflex. |
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http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/issues/100496/4Science/science03.html
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| | Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | Though Verhaegen holds an extreme view in the debate on aquatic origins, other researchers also see signs that we have been shaped by a watery environment. | | | But no one--including Tobias, once one of the strongest proponents of this view--stopped to think that areas which are savannah today may not have been so in the past. | | | Indeed, all the evidence that emerged during the 1970s and 1980s seemed to support the savannah theory. |
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http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nantonio/aquatic_ape_theory.htm
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| | Human Origins |
| | The aquatic ape theory proposes no major modifications to existing Darwinian theory, but improves its explanation of the origins of man by positing a long period spent evolving in an aquatic environment. | | | The aquatic ape theory would explain man’s bipedalism, nakedness, subcutaneous fat, salty sweat glands, larynx and tongue arrangement, ear wax, and body hair pattern. | | | The aquatic ape theory is largely the brainchild of Elaine Morgan (see reading list below). |
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http://www.eridu.co.uk/Author/human_origins/aquatic_ape.html
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| | To: All Msg #13, Nov0793 03:42PM Subject: Re: Request for Summary Aquatic Ape Theory Follo |
| | Humans still have vestiges of this response; the sweaty palms, associated today with emotional tension, have more to do with an arboreal ape's preparation for flight than with human heat regulation. | | | But the experts have not been able to come up with a theory of human evolution that satisfies Occam's razor as well as the AAT, let alone refutes the AAT. | | | It further suggests that female head hair was favoured to provide something for baby aquatic apes to hang onto. |
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http://www.skepticfiles.org/evolut/aquatica.htm
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| | Science Central - Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | Self-professedly biased explanation of the Aquatic Ape theory and competing theories for the evolution of humans. | | | ): A theory of human evolution which seeks to understand how... |
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http://sciencecentral.com/site/462211
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| | Aquatic Ape Theory Today: Part II by Paul Kotik on DeeperBlue.net - Fanatical About FreeDiving, Scuba Diving, ... |
| | The AAT encompasses a cluster of human anatomical, physiological and behavioral characteristics. | | | Please note: parsimony does not declare that this theory is the 'truest' or the one most likely to be true, rather, it makes the self-evident point that focussing on the most parsimonious theory is generally the most cost-effective, efficient way for science to proceed. | | | Parsimony suggests that whichever theory has the fewest untestable assumptions should be the one we work hardest to falsify with data. |
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http://www.deeperblue.net/article.php/409/17/1
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| | Paleolithic Diet Page (Paleo Diet, Caveman Diet, Hunter/Gatherer Diet) |
| | Aquatic Ape Theory is a site covering all links on the subject. | | | Cooking up quite a story: Ape, human theory causes evolutionary indigestion is an article by William J. Cromie discussing the controversy over how long humans have been cooking. | | | (The theory argues that humans evolved along the water's edge, but such evidence is now covered by the oceans.) |
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http://www.paleodiet.com
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| | Aquatic Ape Info |
| | I would greatly appreciate proponents of other theories writing or giving me links to descriptions of those theories. | | | Mosaic Theory (biased, my feeble attempt to summarise current thinking.) | | | Anyone got anyone else they want to put forward as a founding father/mother of the AAT?): |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat.html
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| | Amazon.com: Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (Condor Indep Voices): Books |
| | She presents her theory in easily understood terms and thus allows even the layperson to easily understand her theory. | | | The only problem with the book and the theory is the lack of concrete, physical evidence to back it up. | | | She discusses other theories put forward by paleoanthropologists and other scientists respectfully, while discussing their flaws, many of which they themselves acknowledge. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0285635182?v=glance
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| | Sacred Lands - Aquatic Ape Theory/Breathing |
| | In fact, a similar arrangement can be found in sealions and walruses, and its purpose from an evolutionary point of view is that it allows them - and us - to inhale great lungfuls of air through the mouth. | | | This theory is far more likely than the largely discredited idea that speech itself somehow caused a dramatic rearrangement of the larynx. | | | The advantage of the lowered larynx for a creature which was evolving to cope with a semi-aquatic lifestyle is that it would have been able to take deeper breaths and therefore stay under water for long periods. |
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http://www.sacredlands.org/aquatic_breathing.htm
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| | Pop Occulture: The Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | It seems the theory is held with some derision by mainstream science, but overall, it's pretty interesting. | | | Then today, I happened across another interesting (though scientifically more-questionable) theory, which states that human evolution stems from an acquatic ape. | | | To me, it's not terribly important whether or not the theory holds up to scientific scrutiny. |
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http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2004/08/aquatic-ape-theory.html
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| | Aquatic Ape Theory |
| | What our bodies tell us about human origins | | | I believe the AAT has many valid points, and answers questions yet unanswered by conventional theories. | | | I was first introduced to AAT when I happened upon a book in the library called "The Descent of Woman" written by Elaine Morgan. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mo/aylashome/AAT.html
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| | Aquatic ape theory - EvoWiki |
| | This does not state they were aquatic (water-breathing), but instead took advantage of the conditions. | | | The Aquatic Ape theory argues that in the past, humanity's primate ancestors dwelt in shallow waters for the sake of safety and food supply. | | | This page was last modified 15:45, 23 Jun 2005. |
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http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Aquatic_ape_theory
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| | Paleoanthropology Links |
| | Descent of man theory: disproved by molecular biology, by Richard Deem | | | Man From the Apes: Has Science Proved It Yet? | | | "Just So" Stories of Apes and Humans, by Ray Bohlin |
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http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/links.html
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| | Aquatic Ape Theory,African Eve,African pre-history,African Travel Books |
| | This book traces the author’s travels in India and eastern Africa, looking closely at some little-known history of this region, seminal to humanity, and opening the author’s debate on the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. | | | One of them, Golden Rhino, was the third volume of the trilogy planned in 1985, which evolved into the Aquatic Ape books. | | | These traveller's tales, spanning the years from 1958 to 1999, were collected into the four books which are published here. |
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