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Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution Cover

Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution

Publisher:Bentham Science
By: Mario Vaneechoutte  
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|Dec 2011
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The book starts from the observation that humans are very different from the other primates. Why are we naked? Why do we speak? Why do we walk upright? Fifty years ago in 1960 marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy tried to answer this when he announced his so-called aquatic hypothesis: human ancestors did not live in dry savannahs as traditional anthropology assumes but have adapted to live at the edge between land and water gathering both terrestrial and aquatic foods.

This eBook is an up-to-date collection of the views of the most important protagonists of this long-neglected theory of human evolution at the 50th anniversary of its announcement in 1960. It brings together the views of leading scientists such as anthrolopogy professor Phillip Tobias marine biologist Richard Ellis waterbirth gynaecologist Michel Odent nutritional biologist Michael Crawford and science writer Elaine Morgan.
PDF ISBN: 978-1-60805-244-8
Publisher: Bentham Science
Copyright owner: © 2011 Bentham Science Publishers
Publication date: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 253
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Anthropology

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