It’s always good to receive perceptive, constructive criticism. Astute and erudite commenter, Susan Burns, writes:
In regards to your new evidence of aquatic ape; you are an asshole.
I must admit, I’m somewhat perplexed as to how anyone (either pro- or anti-aquatic ape hypothesis) could take such exception to this post, but there you go. We live and learn.
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Humans did not descend from aquatic apes, of course, although our ancestors were too heavy & slow to run over open plains as some anthropologists still believe.
Instead, Pleistocene Homo populations simply followed the coasts & rivers in Africa & Eurasia (800 ka they even reached Flores >18 km overseas), google, eg, “econiche Homo”.
–eBook “Was Man more aquatic in the past?” introd.Phillip Tobias
http://www.benthamscience.com/ebooks/9781608052448/index.htm
–guest post at Greg Laden’s blog
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/01/30/common-misconceptions-and-unproven-assumptions-about-the-aquatic-ape-theory
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