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>The author theorized that we spent a large amount of time in the water (not
>living in it, but near it and spending a lot of time in it), as evidenced by
>our noses, hairless bodies, fat distribution and other evolutionary
>differences from land-bound primates.
I think this is called the "marine mammal theory" of the origin of
humans.
I remember reading a good essay about it on a Web site somehwere;
sorry, I
didn't bookmark it. Maybe you could find it with a search engine. I
tried, and found something similar at:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/initial.bipedalism/
The theory is that humans were sort of like seals at one time,
spending
much of their lives in the water. I don't know if I believe it, but
it's
intriguing.
>Hair was not a
>need as well while being in a warm sun. Give me a nice cover of fur
>in Europe in winter time any day ;-)
Not so fast, Darwin :^) . Even in the hottest places, most mammals
have a
layer of body hair. The few hairless mammals on the planet are mostly
marine ones, like whales and manatees, who actually live IN the water.
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