FB/FB: The Aquatic ape theory - Sasquatch - Human
The Facebook Find Bigfoot group are huge proponents of the Aquatic Ape Theory. The Aquatic Ape Theory or AAT is the idea that humans went through a semi-aquatic stage in their evolutionary history. According to some scientists, AAT can help explain why humans lost their body hair or why we feel a strong affinity for water and expensive oceanfront property.
This new video from FB/FB highlights a video on the AAT and the adaptations that humans and Sasquatch possess that allows both to swim.
Although this was posted on their Facebook page for followers to comment on, there were a few who disagreed:
**Brand New FB/FB Video** "Human/Sasquatch and the Aquatic Ape Theory" This video highlights a video on the Aquatic Ape theory and the dozen adaptations that humans and Sasquatch possess that allows both to swim. This is a thoroughly enjoyable video. The admins at FBFB gave it four stars. Those who believe that humans descended from Australopithecus, you really should do more research.
The aquatic ape theory is a pile of Sasquatch shite. FBFB's analysis is always full of giant leaps and unsupported claims.
ReplyDeleteFB/FB You really know how to show your pompas asses don't you?
ReplyDeleteHaving an opinion is one thing, calling others lemmings or or worse for not agreeing with your opinion is disrespectful and in poor taste.
Way to get throught to folks !!!!
The aquatic ape theory is simply laughable.
ReplyDeleteIn a nutshell it was thought to be a fact monkeys dont swim. It was then found they did in certain situations- namely when they feel like it.
Humans and monkeys both swim when they feel like it. Swimming would be an ideal thing to learn if you may fall in the water so not to drown.
You have a common behavior shared by many animals and a natural survival technique that is learning to swim learning to swim.
How do you get any theory from two isolated facts more consistent with many other more plausible explanations that what the Aquatic theory claims is the case.
To really rip it apart- all animals swim-when they have to and drum roll most hair that has been lost are to areas of the body where mere clothing is sufficient to maintain and not lose body heat from these areas.
I dont even believe the Aquatic theory is a possibility.
I agree with the above posts, we do not need to invoke an "aquatic ape" phase of human evolution to explain why we are. Our mostly hairless body is better explained as a physiological adaptation to being pursuit daytime predators- the bushmen of the Kalahari still hunt this way running down game such as wildebeest with incredible stamina (stamina that is latent in all of us, even people who live on the interwebs). Secondly our naked skins provide a canvas for body decorations, a habit of ours that predates Kat Von D. And thirdly, pretty much all vertebrates can swim, some quite well that you might not assume to be great swimmers. Such as the ostrich- check out this youtube clip
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FB/FB is a great place to find all the good/bad bigfoot videos you want but they should stick to that and not try to rewrite human evolution.
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I have no such stamina, but I've watched Bushmen run down speedy ungulates. It was amazing. The animal (can remember what it was, but I think it was a gemsbok) was so exhausted it couldn't even rise when the Bushmen made the final approach for the kill. Amazing.
Loss of hair went hand in hand with our change of diet as hunters.
Aquatic bigfoot my ass. :D
@SciaticPain
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I have no such stamina, but I've watched Bushmen run down speedy ungulates. It was amazing. The animal (can remember what it was, but I think it was a gemsbok) was so exhausted it couldn't even rise when the Bushmen made the final approach for the kill. Amazing.
Loss of hair went hand in hand with our change of diet as hunters.
Aquatic bigfoot my ass. :D
Glad to see you have not left us AIFL, I myself have been a little discouraged with the growing amount of venomous posts, people posting under false names etc al that I believe Shawn himself has addressed.
ReplyDeleteIt's harder and harder to find any place on the interwebz to have respectful discourse without trolling, name calling, condescending remarks etc...but I guess that is all par for the course when we are all anonymous on the webs.
Hopefully you stick around until the DNA/Smeja/EP stuff comes out...(which may be never as you have suggested or, according to the latest gossip, as soon as the end of the month).
Cheers
"Those who believe that humans descended from Australopithecus, you really should do more research."
ReplyDeleteLOL WUT?
Seriously, I'll listen to any ideas about adaptation, etc., but there's a point when those of us who actually HAVE an anthropological education have to stop and say, .."Really? Did you just try to feed me that?"
I believe in thinking out of the box, but the Aquatic Ape Theory is absolute hogwash. Complete and utter CRAP.
This is why the scientific community want NO part of Sasquatch research and if.. IF a scientist got the fever and funding to do a PROPER research project, it would have to be kept so deep on the DL that daylight, much less nutjob squatchers and rumor mills, could penetrate the study until it was done, dusted, analyzed, and published. And, I'm not talking Ketchum involvement - good science perched precariously on an amateur project - I'm talking science conducted by anthropologists and biologists, start to finish.
Anyway, I'm still lol'ing about the AAT.. how embarrassing.
I do not think aquatic, but I do know that the evidence shows early humans were very connected to water and the shoreline. This is not to say we do not have the physiology that allows the bushman to run down small animals, just that early on humans adapted to a much wider environment than most animals. Here is an interesting article on the subject:
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