The Scars of Evolution by Elaine Morgan.
Just finished this book, and believe our ancestors, at some during their evolution, evolved in an aquatic enviroment. Here is a bit that had me uncontrollably laughing(though it seems sort of trivial when I think about it):
It was implied, and sometimes stated, that chimps cannot speak because the structures of their mouths and throat debars them from producing the requisite sounds. This is not the case. Apes and monkeys can produce a variety of vowel sounds, varying both in pitch and volume. They can say 'ah' and 'ee' and 'oo'. They can prounounce 'k' and 'p' and 'h' and 'm' and they can pronounce 'k' and 'p' and 'm' and the glottal stop(the sound which in Cockney dialect replaces the 'tt' in 'bottle')... One early experiment to investigate the chimp's powers of verbal communication, set up by America psychologists K. J. and Caroline Hayes, met with limited success. They tried to teach the chimanzee Vicky to talk, and after six years of hard work the animal had learned to utter only four words - 'papa', 'mamma', 'cup' and 'up'.
It was implied, and sometimes stated, that chimps cannot speak because the structures of their mouths and throat debars them from producing the requisite sounds. This is not the case. Apes and monkeys can produce a variety of vowel sounds, varying both in pitch and volume. They can say 'ah' and 'ee' and 'oo'. They can prounounce 'k' and 'p' and 'h' and 'm' and they can pronounce 'k' and 'p' and 'm' and the glottal stop(the sound which in Cockney dialect replaces the 'tt' in 'bottle')... One early experiment to investigate the chimp's powers of verbal communication, set up by America psychologists K. J. and Caroline Hayes, met with limited success. They tried to teach the chimanzee Vicky to talk, and after six years of hard work the animal had learned to utter only four words - 'papa', 'mamma', 'cup' and 'up'.