Re: A critique of the BBC aquatic ape programme and the transcript.


Lee Olsen wrote:

> According to your imagination, our ancestors waded across Africa and
> Asia following the cheetahs and gazelles (who by the way require very
> little water) across the savanna all the way to China. Your scenario
> couldn't be more contradictory to the physical evidence. It is one
> thing to model in the absence of physical evidence, but it is quite
> another to directly contradict it.

Apes wade bipedally at depths where practically every other mammal
(including cheetahs) does not. this is just one of the points you
choose to ignore.

I'm on a working holiday now - so not time to reply in full.

Algis Kuliukas

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