Science is gone. It's all gone, replaced by Dogma.
There's nothing "Kooky" about Aquatic Ape theory. In fact, the mainstream has adopted it. You may have noticed yourself that humans managed to spread onto all six inhabitable continents starting long, Long, LONG before anyone got around to inventing anything more complicated than a dugout canoe. And, the mainstream has long accepted that they did this following the coast.
Wait. "Following the coast" is only part of it. Nobody believes that they carried an African savanna on their backs, not even the status quo. Nobody believes there was an abundance of fast food restaurants for them to stop at. Nope. So when everyone agrees that they were following the coast, what they mean is that they were exploiting marine resources in order to sustain themselves. After all, everyone's got to eat, right? So if they were on the coast they had to be finding food on that coast..marine resources..Aquatic Ape.
Our ancestors spread across the globe -- they "Dispersed" -- along water's edge. They dispersed along the coast..
That's what it is called: Coastal dispersal. Even the mainstream accepts coastal dispersal and coastal dispersal *Is* Aquatic Ape Theory. Coastal dispersal posits that they lived waterside, they survived by exploiting marine resources. Modern day "Aquatic Ape" theory simply takes this further. It uses this fact which we all agree on to explain observations, data, and to posit a model for human evolution. "Aquatic Ape" takes something we all agree on and builds from there. That's all Aquatic Ape does.
There's more to it. The human brain is dependent upon DHA, an Omega-3, which we never even evolved a means to better synthesize ourselves until long after so called "Modern Humans" were on the scene!
I am *So* not a fan of molecular dating (it exaggerates age) and I hate DNA evidence because none of us can see it. We have to accept the word of whoever it is "Reporting" this evidence to us. But, there is supposed to be a human adaptation, an evolved ability to better synthesize DHA and according to the those who say they found it, it dates to about 80k years ago. Compare this to the usual dates for the evolution of so called "Modern" humans, which is 200,000 to 300,000 years!
What am I saying? I'm saying that humans, our big brains required a diet rich in DHA in order for us to have evolved big brains in the first place, and the only environment that could provide such a diet was and is the water. DHA is abundant in seafood, it's not on dry land.
So Aquatic Ape Theory takes *Two* things that everyone agrees on -- Coastal Dispersal & the necessity of a DHA rich environment -- and build from there. Kooky? Not in the least. But it does dare to question the status quo.
This is how the status quo reacts towards dissension:
