Aquatic Ape Theory Human Evolution

Aquatic Ape Theory Human Evolution

Aquatic Ape Theory

In 1960 the marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy published a paper proposing what is known to be the Aquatic Ape Theory (ATT) about human evoulution.

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- Papers from a symposium at University Gent, Flanders, Belgium.
- Promotes a variation on the aquatic ape theory that suggests humans evolved from two hominids that were adapted to a water-side habitat.
- 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.
- Two electronic books written by Denis Montgomery. The books may also be downloaded in PDF format.
- A critique of the aquatic ape theory, with examples refuting the basic premises of the theory.
- Self-professedly biased explanation of the Aquatic Ape theory and competing theories for the evolution of humans.
- A Straight Dope column criticizing the aquatic ape hypothesis.
- Paper by Marc J. M. Verhaegen, published in Speculations in Science and Technology.
- Article describes an alternative hypothesis on human origins advanced by author Elaine Morgan.

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