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Some people think I'm some kind of authority on the aquatic ape theory (AAT). I'm not. I'm a techie. But I happen
to be the grandson of Elaine Morgan, who writes most of the stuff about the AAT, so I made this page anyway.
News
I update this site rarely, so "news" may be the wrong word.
- April 2005
- New Scientist interview for Elaine Morgan
- March 2000
- The Role of Water in Human Evolution by Catherine Friedl, a student of Carleton University. Published on the web at Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum.
- March 2000
- The Passionate Ape website by Craig "the Busy" Hagstrom will shortly be up - though not at the time of writing (Mar 20th).
- July 1999
- Aquatic Ape and African Eve published online by Denis Montgomery (updated)
I would greatly appreciate proponents of other theories writing or giving me links to descriptions of those theories. I'm way too biased.
Summaries written by proponents of them, rather than myself, are marked as (unbiased) below. Some are mechanisms (such as neoteny), rather than causes (such as habitual bipedal feeding). Mechanisms don't necessarily compete with any of the theories, and can be complimentary to them.
Leaflets
I'm always looking for more of these, if you know any.
Other Sites of interest:
- The talk.origins website Everything you ever wanted to know about human evolution is here. I consult it frequently to reply to emails sent to me, so save me the trouble and read it yourself!
- Maarten's AAT page,
maintained by Maarten Fornerod
(Maarten.Fornerod@stjude.org)
- The
sci.anthropology.paleo homepage,
maintained by Danny Yee
(danny@cs.su.oz.au)
- sci.anthropology.paleo
newsgroup. This is where the action is, folks! Drop in for the
latest AAT news, views, arguments and other stuff.
- The Role of Water in Human Evolution by Catherine Friedl, a student of Carleton University. Published on the web at Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum.
- Evolution Assignment at Georgia Perimeter College. A good summary of the AAT's problems, and some links.
- David Nurenberg's Aquatic Ape Theory Page - a presentation at the University of Massachusetts
- No idea. Anyone speak German?
- New Odyssey Magazine - A great resource for AAT researchers.
- Adventures in Pseudoscience: The Aquatic Ape Theory - Imprint: Science (Friday, October 4, 1996 (Volume 19, Number 12))
- Science Frontiers Online - No. 34: Jul-Aug 1984
- AAT pages of the Primate Info Net, at theUniversity of Wisconsin.
- Mermaids Exist - The AAH taken to an extreme.
- Interglacial Human Evolution:
A Working Hypothesis.
- Dykning - varför det? Anyone speak Dutch?
- A brief comment in an out of date page at Oxford University.
- Recent publications by Rod Page, of the Taxonomy and Systematics, University of Glasgow.
A section is devoted to answering, as best I can, the questions people
ask me the most. Eternally under construction.
Big changes maybe coming up in the next few months (decades?):
- include image size tags to speed loading of text.
- finish off all those 'under construction' sections on this page and
other ones. Yeah right, in a million years maybe.
- Create a table of our differences from the apes, and list the reasons
given by each theory to explain them.
- Scan in those references on bipedality.
- Write a page on the savannah theory.
- Update my biased creationism page in the alternative theories section
to a proper, positively-biased creationism page, written by someone who
believes in all that stuff. [It's currently lost on my hard drive somewhere]
- Create a table of pros and cons of the AAT.
- Reduce the size of the artwork in the leaflet page to fit in the screen.
- Include a section on bonobos - apparently our genetically closest
relative [there was a nice article in the Sunday Times or something
about this, which I have, and will base the page on].
- Include a completely different section on Arthurian legend. [this would
be fun. If only I had more time!]
- Include a completely different section on code snippets. [this too.]
- Include a completely different section on my CV. [Got to make time for this.]
- I'll be including several papers in their entirety, just as soon
as the permission of the publishers has been secured.
- Putting all the references into one style (pretty much done now,
though the new video section has me stumped. How do you give a reference
for a video?)
- The script for the talk/video Elaine gave at the conference in
America last year, with maybe some screengrabs from the video.
(current status: It's written, but there's a possibility of copyright
infringement. I'm looking into it, with my usual gastropodic speed.)
AAT isn't my theory:
(this section under construction, just like all the other ones. Anyone
got anyone else they want to put forward as a founding father/mother of
the AAT?):
Many thanks to:
(in no order at all)
AAT may also mean:
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since July 2000.
LEGALESE: Unless the author requests otherwise, I may include in these pages any email sent to me, including the name of the author. I try to remove all other personal information, unless the author says I can use it. I try not to misrepresent authors. I always either remove or modify offending articles immediately, if asked by the author, subject, or a representative.