Journal of Human Evolution Volume 77, Pages 1-216 (December 2014) The Role of Freshwater and Marine Resources in the Evolution of the Human Diet, Brain and Behavior Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yes, early primates and our early ancestors ate things caught in the river and even in the shallows and mangroves. Apes still do this. So do humans. This is nothing new. I am at a loss as to what it is you are trying to achieve with this thread. Is there something you wish to discuss? Considering people who wish to read the article will have to purchase it, do you have another source for the journal article? Is there something in the article you wish to discuss? Also, if you are going to use this to plug your water ape theory, then sorry, you are going to have to do better than that.
The conclusion from all this is simple enough: Hominins could not have evolved that big brain, that they are so damned proud of without consistant fouraging of saline seafood for hundreds of thousands of years, at the least since Homo erectus. We just wouldn't have acquired the building blocks from any terrestrial food group, they simply aren't there. And forget Animal Planet and its mockumentaries. Elaine Morgan never argued for the existence of mermaids or any such arse gravy. There's way too much bloody noise on this topic. We're an old beach ape, that's all she ever posited, and that is the only scenario that makes any sense in explaining our evolutionary past. Morgan is one of the abused heroines of 20th century science, and I hope contemporary anthropology is ashamed of itself.
