But as far as the question of the existence of "aquatic humans" is concerned, the phrase brings up the question of why humans, alone among all types of primates, possess a subcutaneous fat layer (like seals), narrow fin like connections between our fingers and toes, are not covered in fur, and have extraordinarily large brains (like dolphins and whales).
IMHO, paleontologists who dig up the bones of proto-chimps, gorillas, and baboons are looking in all the wrong places. What is with the seemingly instinctive affinity of Dolphins for humans (and vice versa - Japanese excepted)? If they could figure out where coastlines were a couple hundred thousand years ago, unfortunately now probably many miles offshore from the existing coast, they might at least be looking in the right spots.
But as far as the question of the existence of “aquatic humans” is concerned, the phrase brings up the question of why humans, alone among all types of primates, possess a subcutaneous fat layer (like seals), narrow fin like connections between our fingers and toes, are not covered in fur, and have extraordinarily large brains (like dolphins and whales).
It is called the “Aquatic Ape Theory” and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than the “Savannah Walking evolution model”
It basically posulates that human ancestors settled around the rivers and streams and spent a lot of their time wading through and swimming through water to gather food etc...
There are a lot of holes and flat out misrepresentations in that theory:
http://www.aquaticape.org/aatclaims.html