The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis Quotes

“It would make it that much harder to delude ourselves that humanity's ancestors, alone in the animal kingdom, lost their hair by wandering out into the sunshine.”
― Elaine Morgan, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the north end of the Rift Valley where the most ancient hominid remains have been found, one section of the l. c. a. population found itself living in a watery environment and—whether by choice or under duress—began to adapt to a semi-aquatic existence.”
― Elaine Morgan, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

“Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years.”
― Elaine Morgan, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis

“The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.”
― Elaine Morgan, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis