![]() ![]() ![]() In 1960, marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy, in a notorious article in The New Scientist, entitled Was Man more aquatic in the past?, suggested that “a branch of the primitive ape-stock was forced by competition from life in the trees to feed on the sea shores, and to hunt for food, shell fish, sea urchins, etc., in the shallow waters off the coast … ”, and that “these semiaquatic creatures were soon wading into deeper water, and eventually began to swim and dive for food at even greater depths.”. This paper gives an overview of the beginnings and the scientific acceptance of the so-called aquatic ape hypothesis of human evolution (AAH), especially the work of Alister Hardy and Elaine Morgan. ![]()
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