[katana]

We are the only part of the primate order to be without fur, have (slightly) webbed fingers and toes, hugely developed brains, and a subcutaneous layer of body fat. All of these are characteristics of aquatic mammals (whales, dolphins, etc.).

I've always thought the fossils they keep digging up in Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere are basically what they seem, chimpanzee progenitors or other now extinct forms of primates. If they really want to find ancient homo sapiens, they need to look near ancient shorelines, which because of changes in sea levels are now far off shore. This in turn makes the chances of finding genuinely ancient (100,000 years BCE plus) human remains all but impossible.

This is at least what I've drawn from a lifetime of watching National Geographic specials and IMHO probably as valid as the conclusions of PhD carrying believers in current "scientific" dogma.

[Pharmboy]

Click here for a good aquatic ape site. Elaine Morgan (from the UK) has written much about this subject.

[Sam Cree]

That aquatic ape stuff feels right to me.

Most humans are strongly, almost mystically, drawn to shorelines. I sure am, anyway. So was my mother. But it adds meaning to the aquatic theory.

[SoCal Pubbie]

"If they really want to find ancient homo sapiens, they need to look near ancient shorelines, which because of changes in sea levels are now far off shore."

As I have stated a few times here, tooting my own horn shamelessly, I am designing an exhibition on paleontology in the Southern California area. I am a designer, not a scientist, but from what I have learned not all the ancient coastlines are under water now. A lot of fossils have been found in Orange County that are up to 100 million years old, and they are mostly marine creatures. In fact, the coast line was around where Riverside is now! Of course, there were no humans here then so no evidence of early man is found.