Posted on 09/25/2023 8:10:20 AM PDT by ganeemead
Humans are basically aquatic mammals (Elaine Morgan...); that means, amongst other things, that many if not most places on Earth where humans have lived in the remote past might now be under the waves as is the case with the Yonaguni ruins off of Okinawa.
Having a sense of smell no better than humans possess would be fatal for any land prey animal. Notice however that aquatic mammals do not really require much of a sense of smell. Elaine Morgan listed a hundred or so traits1which we share with other aquatic mammals but there are a few which stand out:
Voluntary control of breathing which is an adaptation for swimming and diving. We take that for granted but monkeys and apes do not have it. That is the only reason they cannot teach chimps and gorillas to speak English (they can be taught to communicate using deaf signs perfectly well).
Face to face sex. Marine mammals do that, land animals generally don't.
Shoulders adapted for swim strokes. The basic human swimming motion is the same as to throw overhand or use something like a javelin or an atlatl. Humans have that, primates and hominids never did. That is why Neanderthals were limited to thrusting spears while early humans had atlatls and javelins.
Lack of a decent sense of smell.
Elaine Morgan's aquatic ape theory can be viewed two ways. Viewed as a new version of evolution, it doesn’t really work. Viewed as a theory of human adaptation, it is the best theory that has ever been put forward, but it has never gotten any traction in academia and there are two reasons for that:
There is no fossil evidence of any sort of an aquatic ape ever having lived on this planet, and
There has never been a body of water on this planet which would be safe for humans to live in. You only need to spend 15 minutes in the ancient sea monster section of any large museum to comprehend why humans never lived in water on Earth in prehistoric times.
Perfectly good theory, it just needs a different kind of a world to happen on.
This new book is about that different kind of world...
Start a school report this way — “Apes are aquatic mammals ...” and see what the teacher thinks.
Never heard of Elaine Morgan but Desmond Morris discussed this back in the 60s.
Any good biologist would have said, “Marine mammals,” not aquatic mammals.
Being aquatic is the reason we’re mostly hairless, according to some.
Adaptation is evolution.
Adaptation is MICRO-evolution, which is believable. The theory of evolution is about MACRO-evolution, which is not believable.
Well, hey, Kal-El came from Krypton.
And Marvin came from Mars.
When you can’t think of anything intelligent to say, there is always the option of remaining silent...
That’s pre-internet thinking....
Given the verbal excretions of Traitorjoe, KJP, Kamalamadingdong, the SecDefCompPoop, other Cabinet Secretaries, Fetterman, AOC, other Demonicrats and the enemedia, that advice seems only to be adhered to by the actual dead.
The authoress deliberately chose the word "aquatic."
Maybe "littoral" would have been even more apt.
Regards,
So..humans are chimp/dolphin hybrids, is that the working theory? :)
Humans actually have a great sense of smell. We just do not use it that much.
That is why Neanderthals were limited to thrusting spears while early humans had atlatls and javelins.
Nope.
No.
Yet another retarded opinion.
The dead do raise their voices, to vote democrat!
Lake, estuary and river creatures are not marine.
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