The Scars of Evolution by Elaine Morgan.

[misterbungle]

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

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[sleddawg]

whoa.
endlessly interesting.
i'll have to look for that book.
as for the aquatic enviroment, that is almost a given, seeing as how much of our planet is covered in water. but still surprising somehow.

[misterbungle]

I was a little dubious at first about the aquatic theory. However, she stresses at some point that during a continental drift(Asia plate rubbing off the African plate, if I remember correctly) one of our ancestors got stuck on an island, which was a mostly covered in water, causing us to wade through streams and rivers all the time, thus accounting for the hair loss - if a species regresses to a water enviroment it loses its hair and developes a skin more akin to a sea animal, which has fat underneath for insulation

[sleddawg]

science is so fucking funny.

[misterbungle]

Hehe. I was reading this other book about cultural evolution, and the guy was talking about how some self-organising cells in the body sacrifice themselves to save others, and he ended the paragraph with, "I'm such a romantic me."

[trigorinsgurl]

"Hehe"

[misterbungle]

What of it?