New Ideas on human evolution

This is a pretty intriguing idea. Ted rules the universe, btw.

http://www.ted.com/talks/elaine_morg...atic_apes.html

Very interesting! Elaine Morgan seems to present some good reasons for taking the hypothesis seriously.

Not that there is anything wrong with new ideas (quite the contrary) but all ideas must be scrutinized equally and the aquatic ape hypothesis is no exception. Jim Moore does an excellent job here.

Periods of accelerated development in human evolution....

An interesting little read.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/...,5882337.story

It is interesting that even with huge leaps in survival rates and longevity natural selection still influences our development. The dearth of transitional forms is a myth - everything that lives or ever lived is a transitional form between something and something else.