Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution?
Elaine Morgan was born in 1920, and after studying at Oxford University, worked as a television writer. In 1972, she published The Descent of Woman suggesting that human evolution had an aquatic origin. This idea was attacked at first by scientists but the book became an international bestseller. In the decades since, Morgan's aquatic ape hypothesis has gained widespread support. She died in 2013.
More scientific than Genesis, more up to date than Darwin, more fun
than Ardrey... she writes better than Desmond Morris.
*Sunday Telegraph*
It was one of the most outrageous, improbable evolutionary ideas
ever proposed... now the idea... is becoming respectable.
*The Observer*
Part feminist polemic, part evolutionary bombshell.
*The Guardian*
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