Editor: Mario Vaneechoutte

Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution

eBook: US $99 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $181
Printed Copy: US $131
Library License: US $396
ISBN: 978-1-60805-355-1 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-244-8 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2011
DOI: 10.2174/97816080524481110101

Introduction

The book starts from the observation that humans are very different from the other primates. Why are we naked? Why do we speak? Why do we walk upright? Fifty years ago, in 1960, marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy tried to answer this when he announced his so-called aquatic hypothesis: human ancestors did not live in dry savannahs as traditional anthropology assumes, but have adapted to live at the edge between land and water, gathering both terrestrial and aquatic foods.

This eBook is an up-to-date collection of the views of the most important protagonists of this long-neglected theory of human evolution at the 50th anniversary of its announcement in 1960. It brings together the views of leading scientists such as anthrolopogy professor Phillip Tobias, marine biologist Richard Ellis, waterbirth gynaecologist Michel Odent, nutritional biologist Michael Crawford and science writer Elaine Morgan.

Contributors

Editor(s):
Mario Vaneechoutte
University of Ghent
Belgium




Co-Editor(s):
Algis Kuliukas
University of Western Australia
Australia


Marc Verhaegen
Study Center for Anthropology
Belgium




Contributor(s):
C. Leigh Broadhurst
Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Maryland
/
USDA, ARS Beltsville
10300 Baltimore Blvd.
Beltsville
MD, 20705
USA


Wang-Chak Chan
Lund University Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy
Lund University
Kungshuset
Lundagård , 222 22
Sweden


Michael Crawford
Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition
Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
London
SW10, 9NH
UK


Richard Ellis
American Museum of Natural History
42 West 15th Street
New York
NY, 10011
USA


Anna Gislén
Department of Cell and Organism Biology
Lund University, Helgonav 3, 223 62
Lund
Sweden


Algis V. Kuliukas
Centre for Forensic Science
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
WA, 6009
Australia


Elaine Morgan
Mountain Ash, 24 Aberffrwd Road
Glamorgan
CF45 4AR
UK


Stephen Munro
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Australian National University
Canberra, 0200
Australia
/
Curatorial Fellow at Centre for Historical Research
National Museum of Australia
Canberral, ACT, 2600
Australia


Michel Odent
Primal Health Research Centre
72 Savernake Road
London
NW3 2JR
UK


Pierre-François Puech
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine à Paris
Le Zénith 1, 561 avenue Evêché de Maguelone
Palavas, 34250
France


Erika Schagatay
Department of Technology and Sustainable Development
Mid Sweden, University
Akademig 1
83125 Östersund
Sweden
/
Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre
Mid Sweden, University
83125 Östersund
Sweden


Phillip V. Tobias
School of Anatomical Sciences, Institute for Human Evolution
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, Medical School, 7 York Road
Parktown
Johannesburg, 2193
South Africa


Mario Vaneechoutte
Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Department of Clinical Chemistry
Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of Ghent
De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent
Flanders
Belgium


Marc Verhaegen
Study Center for Anthropology
Mechelbaan 338, 2580 Putte
Belgium


Marcel F. Williams
Mu Omega Enterprises
748 Oakland Avenue 306
Oakland
CA, 94611
USA


Tess Williams
Research Services
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley
WA , 6009
Australia




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