Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human EvolutionMario Vaneechoutte, Algis Kuliukas, Marc Verhaegen The book starts from the observation that humans are very different from the other primates. Why are we naked? Why do we speak? Why do we walk upright? Fifty years ago, in 1960, marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy tried to answer this when he announced his so-called aquatic hypothesis: human ancestors did not live in dry savannahs as traditional anthropology assumes, but have adapted to live at the edge between land and water, gathering both terrestrial and aquatic foods. This eBook is an up-to-date collection of the views of the most important protagonists of this long-neglected theory of huma. |
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This hypothesis sounds just about as likely as continental drift to me. Littorally.
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| Title | Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution, Mario Vaneechoutte |
| Editors | Mario Vaneechoutte, Algis Kuliukas, Marc Verhaegen |
| Publisher | Bentham Science Publishers, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1608052443, 9781608052448 |
| Length | 253 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Physical |
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