Were the First People Swimmers?: An Illustrated Introduction to Elaine Morgan’s Aquatic Ape Theory of Human Evolution - Softcover

Kaul, Judy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492850195 ISBN 13: 9781492850199

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Your child asks, “Where did we come from?” and you wish you had a scientific explanation of human evolution to answer the question. Or you’re grown up and you’re still curious. How did our species become so different from the other great apes, or for that matter, from other mammals? More than a century and a half after Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published, the mystery of the “missing link” is still unresolved. Scientists agree on approximately when the split occurred between humans and our last common ancestors, but not how. Were the First People Swimmers? introduces the reader to an elegant, rigorous theory by Welsh writer Elaine Morgan, based on a hypothesis by marine biologist Alister Hardy, that our early Homo sapien ancestors evolved through natural selection in water. The theory became known as the Aquatic Ape Theory or “AAT.” Morgan wrote six books on human evolution and the theory. Were the First People Swimmers? guides you, with elementary text and playful illustrations, through empirical evidence that explains how the first humans could have started talking, lost their ability to run on all four legs, lost their fur, and acquired subcutaneous fat. Elaine Morgan provided ideas and feedback in the conception and planning of Were the First People Swimmers? The book encourages observation of nature, critical thinking and inter-generational learning.

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About the Author

Judy Kaul is a retired English-as-a-Second-Language teacher and audio-visuals producer. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she swims every day and dabbles in art. Her professional productions include teaching materials on non-traditional jobs for women for the U.S. Dept. of Labor, health and medical topics for Project Hope in Guatemala, the sustainable “Lorena” stove in Guatemala, a series about life in Guatemala for Spanish classes, ESL for electronics students, and ESL for Amnesty and U.S. Citizenship.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1492850195
• ISBN 13: 9781492850199
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 46