Comments on: Our Ancestors Were Aquatic Apes – Elaine Morgan Ted Talk (Video) http://thirdmonk.net/knowledge/ancestors-aquatic-apes-elaine-morgan-ted-talk.html Elevate and Evolve | Cannabis & Psychedelic Culture Blog Sat, 25 Aug 2018 20:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 By: aquape http://thirdmonk.net/knowledge/ancestors-aquatic-apes-elaine-morgan-ted-talk.html#comment-63786 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:51:00 +0000 http://thirdmonk.net/?p=9029#comment-63786 For an update of the Littoral Theory, google e.g.
“Aquatic Ape Theory made easy 2017”.

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By: aquape http://thirdmonk.net/knowledge/ancestors-aquatic-apes-elaine-morgan-ted-talk.html#comment-3163 Sun, 08 Dec 2013 15:49:00 +0000 http://thirdmonk.net/?p=9029#comment-3163 For recent info on Elaine’s ‘aquatic apes’ (better terms IMO are Littoral Theory or Coastal Dispersal Model), please google ‘greg laden blog verhaegen’ or ‘econiche Homo’: rather than running over savannas, Homo populations during the Ice Ages followed coasts & rivers in Africa & Eurasia, collecting different waterside & shallow aquatic plant & animal foods.

Human Evolution soon publishes the proceedings of the symposium with david Attenborough on human waterside evolution ‘Human Evolution:
Past, Present & Future’ in London 8-10 May 2013:
SPECIAL EDITION PART 1 (end 2013)
Introduction – Peter Rhys-Evans
1. Human’s Association with Water Bodies: the ‘Exaggerated Diving Reflex’ and its Relationship with the Evolutionary Allometry of Human Pelvic and Brain
Sizes – Stephen Oppenheimer
2. Human Ecological Breadth: Why Neither Savanna nor Aquatic Hypotheses can Hold Water – JH Langdon
3. Endurance Running versus Underwater Foraging: an Anatomical and
Palaeoecological Perspective – Stephen Munro
4. Wading Hypotheses of the Origin of Human Bipedalism – Algis Kuliukas
5. The Aquatic Ape Evolves: Common Misconceptions and Unproven Assumptions about the So-Called Aquatic Ape Hypothesis – Marc Verhaegen
6. The Epigenetic Emergence of Culture at the Coastline: Interaction of Genes,
Nutrition, Environment and Demography – CL Broadhurst & Michael Crawford
SPECIAL EDITION PART
2 (begin 2014) with 12 contributions

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