Posted Jun 8, 2002 by Foxglove4200
This is the first I ever heard of the idea that homo sapiens have an aquatic heritage and I find the whole possibility very intriguing. Actually more intriguing is the controversy over the topic and the way many scientist, if the reports here are accurate, are trying to shelve the idea as a threat to their own self professed expertise on the subject of evolution. In my view everyone is trying to over simplify the process to some extent. Traditional theory holding to the idea that homo sapiens are directly decended from the savannah apes and the aquatic theorists saying a more aquatic ancestor akin to the predecessors of dolphins and whales must be more prevalent. Then there are the all too over-simplyfied creationists who avoid the whole thinking process by saying that homo sapiens are just the product of some being's deranged imagination. Evolution is just not that simple, if you need to see how complex it can get read the entry on the duckbilled platypus. Beak like a duck, lays eggs like birds and reptiles, has fur and warm blood like a mammal. This creature strongly exhibit that mammals had to evolve from the earlier dominating species of the planet, i.e reptiles, birds, and fish. Just thought of the fish, they also lay eggs for reproductive purposes. It is understandable for contemporary scientists to hold closely to the savannah ape idea with genetic evidence linking humans to chimpanzies, gorillas and other modern apes. It is important to remember that the 90%+ shared genetic codes between these ape species does not indicate that humans evolved from gorillas and chimpazees but rather they all evolved from a shared ancestor. That ancestor accounts for a huge amount of the similarities, and where those ancestors strayed with contact to other species evolution set the path for humans from a small influx of an aquatic cousin while gorillas etc. had no such aquatic cousins in their family.
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