[Coyoteman]

There's one other factor involved in the rise of modern humans which nobody has mentioned. You don't need to be an evolutionist to grasp the fact that Elaine Morgan is almost certainly right in thinking that humans originally lived in water. That would have to be water without sea monsters in it, and our own oceans have always had sea monsters in them. I don't really have an answer to that one.

Have you ever checked to see the amount of followup that Elaine Morgan's theory has generated? It it a hot area of paleoanthropological research, or is it relegated to the backwaters (if you'll pardon the pun)?

As I noted above, if I had to guess, I'd guess that humans were transported here, but a guess is all that would be.

Any evidence for this at all? It seems pretty lame considering the genetic continuity among primates, as well as the fossil and archaeological records.

[tomzz]

As I have mentioned, the "genetic continuity" of primates and hominids seems to stop before it gets to humans.

[VadeRetro]

Nothing in this idea ("... humans were transported here ...") would suggest that humans and chimpanzees should have identical cytochrome c molecules, or genes for same that differ by a single silent mutation. In a similar vein, chimpanzees appear to be genetically closer to humans than they do to gorillas or orangutans.

The "transported here" humans are inexplicably similar to a particular "not transported here" ape species, which appears in every genetic way to be our sister species.