Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution
Vaneechoutte, M.; Kuliukas, A.; Verhaegen, M. (Ed.) (2019). Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. Bentham Science Publishers: Sharjah. ISBN 978-1-60805-244-8. 244 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/97816080524481110101
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- Vaneechoutte, M., editor
- Kuliukas, A., editor
- Verhaegen, M., editor
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- Tobias, P.V. (2019). Revisiting water and hominin evolution, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 3-15, more
- Broadhurst, C.L.; Crawford, M.; Munro, S. (2019). Littoral man and waterside woman: The crucial role of marine and lacustrine foods and environmental resources in the origin, migration and dominance of Homo sapiens, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 16-35, more
- Kuliukas, A. (2019). A wading component in the origin of hominin bipedalism, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 36-66, more
- Verhaegen, M.; Munro, S.; Puech, P-F.; Vaneechoutte, M. (2019). Early hominoids: Orthograde aquarboreals in flooded forests?, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 67-81, more
- Munro, S.; Verhaegen, M. (2019). Pachyosteosclerosis in archaic Homo: Heavy skulls for diving, heavy legs for wading?, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 82-105, more
- Kuliukas, A.; Morgan, E. (2019). Aquatic scenarios in the thinking on human evolution: What are they and how do they compare?, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 106-119, more
- Schagatay, E. (2019). Human breath-hold diving ability suggests a selective pressure for diving during human evolution, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 120-147, more
- Williams, M. (2019). Marine adaptations in human kidneys, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 148-155, more
- Odent, M. (2019). Obstetrical implications of the aquatic ape hypothesis, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 156-163, more
- Gislén, A.; Schagatay, E. (2019). Superior underwater vision shows unexpected adaptability of the human eye, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 164-172, more
- Chan, W-C. (2019). Human aquatic color vision, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 173-180, more
- Vaneechoutte, M.; Munro, S.; Verhaegen, M. (2019). Seafood, diving, song and speech, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 181-189, more
- Ellis, R. (2019). Aquagenesis: Alister Hardy, Elaine Morgan and the aquatic type hypothesis, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 190-198, more
- Williams, T. (2019). Just add water: The aquatic ape story in science, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 199-212, more
- Kuliukas, A. (2019). Langdon's critique of the aquatic ape hypothesis: It's final refutation, or just another misunderstanding?, in: Vaneechoutte, M. et al. Was man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy: waterside hypotheses of human evolution. pp. 213-225, more
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| Abstract |
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. |
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