*NOT claiming this is true or I'm a scientist or anything, just found it interesting*
Aquatic Ape Theory: The idea that the ancestors of modern humans were more like aquatic mammals in the past. The hypothesis in its present form was proposed by the marine biologist Alister Hardy in 1960.
If you Google it you'll see many reasons that argue why this is actually possible and they're pretty interesting such as:
* Human babies are instinctively able to hold their breath underwater and humans in general are able to hold our breaths longer than majority of land animals
* Our hands and feet are somewhat webbed and even when in water for long they wrinkle up to strengthen our grip
* Our bodies in general have low tolerance for dehydration
I don't know just see the pic there's a lot of info or Google it
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I would say its a bit silly. For example, the reason we have "sorta" webbed hands is more down to how our hands are developed kind of as a mitten instead of having individual fingers and then the cells between the fingers commit suicide to form said fingers.
There are also a bunch of other things as for example the reason why Humans are so vulnerable to dehydration is the same reason why we are so well suited to very warm climates. We sweat from our whole body which is rare and our skin is not that good at retaining said moisture.
I could go on about more things but this seams more like he wants it to be true so he looks for excuses instead of looking at where the evidence actually leads.
I say it's not possible,, 1) obviously we can hold breathe longer under than most mammals because that's our intention and other mammals a driven instinct to survive once they hit the water they panic (2) almost every mammal is low tolerance for dehydration because our kidney need water and our brains too and the sun saps our water and we release it in term of sweat..( do u realize that u rarely get thirsty at night? and u mostly get thirsty because of warm blankets and heat radiation from the air ( only if it was really hot in the day) (3) they wrinkle up because the texture Is soften by water molecules and it's hard to grip with wrinkled fingers try it out..
Creation & scientific reasoning have everything in common, including the inability to express clearly how we came to be in detail. Every theory falls short and critics/haters take down other idea eggs trying to hatch. In this case it seems to me that both science & creation would agree that aquatics came before primates, be it "centuries" or a "day", as if time matters in how...
I don't think any of the evidence makes sense personally. If there was aquatic apes alive today or fossils or if there was a barrier of water between apes and humans origins, it'd be much more believable. Funny theory though. Maybe my Labrador came from water because throwing a stick into the river for him to get was like the happiness a person may feel after screaming when they realized they won a million dollars.
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it depends on how much actual evidence there is for this. Having a bunch of evolutionary left overs isn't really evidence unless we have some fossils of aquatic apes. I won't accept this as a theory until we see some evidence of the aquatic ape's existence.
thanks for advuce, but tgat theory makes sense, mine is thatt our dna has really good prediction properties and mayve this has happened before so it knows what we must become. We are deceloping into sea creatures because global warming
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