Mammals of the Ocean: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis Set to Music

[AlgisKuliukas]

Nice production. Good work. But was it really necessary to distort the idea quite so much? As "Gib" mentions, I'm not very important, but I am happy to discuss this idea with anyone - even those who just want to take the piss out it (that's pretty much everyone on TalkRational then). Maybe next time you might take the piss out of the savannah theory or the woodland theory or the super generalist theory or the sudden mutation theory or the random drift theory or the God knows theory?

[AlgisKuliukas]

... or whatever the hell it is that stands for orthodoxy today, Last I heard it went something like this... "don't ask, it's not a scientific question." Brilliant. It's not the "aquatic ape" theory - there are more than one. They should be called "waterside hypotheses of human evolution" because they suggest some selection from wading, swimming and diving has made us so different from the other apes - not that we became aquatic as implied by your parody.

[jointgib]

Aquatic ape proponents will be pleased to know that the Aquatic Ape Theory's tenth most important proponent, Algis Kuliukas, is available for discussion on a daily basis in his own Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution thread in the Evolution & Origins forum at Talk Rational.org

[iamkylerr]

Okay so the guys got a GENIUS idea. It was kind of weird I stumbled upon this by googling "the five senses" and I was thinking about how the best way to teach people is through audio/visual. But there's a downside, the songs suck... the info needs to be individualized into different genres by actual musical artist. Think about how fucking excited a kid would be to learn by their favorite artist/the style their favorite artist perform in? Just think about it.

[tculhane]

Type "Elaine Morgan" and "TED conference" into google and you can check out a great explaination of the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis that this song is about!