The founder of the company I work for
Was a brilliant mix of scientist, artist and engineer. We still use his method of plankton collection, virtually unchanged, that he designed over 80 years ago. He also put forward the 'aquatic ape' theory. www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/27/aquatic-ape-theory-primate-evolution

Hmm. I'll stick to the plankton.
( A Rory Borealis here under duress, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 14:06, 15 replies)

I like the aquatic ape theory.
It's a genuine shame that it's complete and utter bollocks.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 14:11, closed)

Never let facts
get in the way of a good story :)
( A Rory Borealis here under duress, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 14:28, closed)

I once stumped* Elaine Morgan, author of The Aquatic Ape in a pub.
She was holding forth about humans not being hairy because of living in water and I piped up with "But what about otters and beavers and that?"
*stumped slurred at and got IGNORED by
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 28 Apr 2013, 14:33, closed)

Did you say "beaver" with a twinkle in your eye?

( Ghoti Fingers, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 15:06, closed)

No but I was staring creepily at her lap when I said it.*
*_{may not be true}
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 28 Apr 2013, 15:27, closed)

Somewhere out there is a guy called Algis Kulakis or summat.
who is a proponent of the AAT and was the first person ever to killfile me on Usenet.
I'll never forget his proposal that a man could drown a lion by holding its head under the sea while standing in knee deep water.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 17:26, closed)

What if it was a very small lion?
Or what if it was THIS lion?
www.eversostrange.com/2011/03/27/the-stuffed-lion-of-gripsholms-castle/

:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 28 Apr 2013, 17:28, closed)

That's bloody hilarious

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 19:08, closed)

Terrible bullying of Rory.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 22:33, closed)

Shit. I remember that nobend.
We may have shared the same killfile. I am most aroused.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 17:34, closed)

Here he is, still as mental as ever
www.riverapes.com/Me/
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 18:52, closed)

Imagine the horrible frustration of having such a long obsession with something that everybody else acknowledges is twaddle.
Ahahahahahahahaha.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 19:06, closed)

I'd usually give someone a bit of respect for perseverance
but Algis is such a knob in conversation and so angry when challenged that sympathy is impossible.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Sun 28 Apr 2013, 19:15, closed)

I don't have a real problem with Aquatic Ape Theory
It does explain how we got bigger brains thanks to all those omega-3 fatty acids that are found only in seafood. I've not heard anyone come up with a more convincing alternate theory about how that happened on the savannah plains
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 16:15, closed)

Nope, that won't cut it.
It doesn't explain how today there are millions of perfectly healthy people born and raised on a diet of no seafood.

If all we had to do was outwit a clam then there wasn't much selection pressure on our earliest ancestors either, who didn't live by the sea and didn't have farmer's markets.

So I have a real problem with the AAT, it hasn't thought through almost every aspect of its frequently preposterous claims.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 23:16, closed)