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theadvancedapes  ·  4234 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We Are Not Aquatic Apes

Yes, I understand all that. But it doesn't change the fact that there is no known hominid that has become specialized for aquatic feeding behaviour for an extensive period of evolutionary time. So any adaptive story Hardy or Morgan have proposed is just that, an adaptive story. It has no testable validity. All evidence indicates that we evolved in woodlands and savannas. So that is where theory should focus its attention.