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Sinuses and flotation: Does the aquatic ape theory hold water?
Author(s) -
Rae Todd C.,
Koppe Thomas
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1520-6505
pISSN - 1060-1538
DOI - 10.1002/evan.21408
Subject(s) - mainstream , environmental ethics , media studies , history , popular media , blogosphere , sociology , political science , law , the internet , philosophy , computer science , world wide web
The idea that people went through an aquatic phase at some time in their evolutionary past is currently undergoing a popular resurgence (see Foley & Lahr[1][Foley R, 2014]). This idea has even started to gain some traction in more learned circles; the late paleoanthropologist Phillip Tobias wrote in support of aspects of it in an edited e‐book[2][Tobias PV, 2011] and a conference on the topic held recently in London was endorsed by celebrities such as the television presenter Sir David Attenborough.[3][Devlin H, 2013] Despite (or perhaps because of) the lack of interest within the academic community, advocates of the concept continue to fill the media (and blogosphere) with challenges to the “savannah hypothesis” of the origins of people and to bemoan the fact that their views are not taken seriously by mainstream academia.