Elaine Morgan - The way it was, or wishful thinking?
Back in the good ol' days , when I was young, a woman called Elaine Morgan wrote a book challenging the scientific establishment of the day. She suggested that rather than being driven by the male's hunting behaviour, it was an existence on the sea shore that shaped our anatomy and behaviour as humans, and that female needs and drives had as much
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There are basic requirements a fledgling society needs to survive and thrive. These requirements are seen repeated in successful ancient societies all over the world, and only in part is location a factor.
Focusing on “…the sea shore that shaped our anatomy and behaviour as humans,”
Of all the seashore societies that evolved throughout the ages, there are negligible anatomical differences between humans who evolved inland. The only recorded anatomical difference in humans that could possibly support “Elaine Morgan’s” aquatic ape theory, is a group of nomadic boat people living off the shores of Indonesia, whose underwater vision is 20% better than the rest of us.
The reason these boat people aren’t used to support the “aquatic ape theory” is because these anatomical changes are isolated to one specific seashore society, and is not common to all seashore societies; thus, the evolution of these boat people more supports the theory of “male's hunting behaviour,” The better hunters were able to support society, got the mates, and their children thrived, thus these men with the better hunting ability due to superior underwater vision passed on this straight.
This is repeated all over the world in every animal. The genetic traits directly related to survival were the traits that shaped the evolution of animals.
Elaine Morgan was joke and the “Aquatic Ape Theory” doesn’t hold water.
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