>Denise:

> I read a book some 20 years ago or so called The Descent of Woman.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?

It's called the "Aqautic Ape Theory" and is relatively fascinating to
me.
There are interesting web pages (debunkings as well) which can be
searched
for.

Cheers,
Kirt