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>I read a book some 20 years ago or so called The Descent of Woman.
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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.
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>She had a lot of interesting theories about all of this that could have been
>just plain silly, but at the time, they made a lot of sense. Has anyone else
>read this or heard of these theories?
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>Denise
Yup; read it and was captivated by the possibility. It makes a whole
lot of
sense. I guess in that case, we ate fish and kelp and shellfish,
crabs,
etc. At the time I had a roommate who was pretty obsessed with
dolphins and
REALLY latched onto this. Of course, she was appropriately structured,
bodyfat-wise:)
ginny and Tomo
All stunts performed without a net!
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