Algis Kuliukas

Absolutely. I returned to academia 25 yrs ago to try to find out why the field hated it so much. After a MSc @UCL, PhD @UWA, I learnt the answer: No good reason, only very bad ones. Group think sneering, the one thing you'd expect anthropologists to understand better than anyone else.

Unfortunately there seems to be a taboo in the field on anything pertaining to possible selection from moving through water. Unfathomable.

Personally, as someone who has written several sole papers on waterside hypotheses of human evolution (as the so-called "aquatic ape hypothesis" should be called), and had as many rejected by the peer review process, I would welcome any offer to review or debate such ideas.

Ooh... some Nazi guy wrote something about an "aquatile" past 80 years ago.

This is the best counter argument you have?

Why not, instead, give us one tiny evidence-based argument against the Wading hypothesis of hominid bipedal origins?

So what? You guys are so keen to scrape the barrel for anything against these very plausible and evidence-based ideas.
It's like listening to MAGA.

WHAT Talks

There is definitely something to waterside hypotheses of human evolution. See www.whattalks.com and www.riverapes.com

I hate that image. It was what Roberts & Maslin used in their sneering post against David Attenborough's radio doco, The Waterside Ape.
Why didn't they use one of the many actual photos of great apes moving bipedally in water? Because it would make the idea look good and we can't have that.

Bravo, Jake. You are a hero.

WHAT Talks

Nonsense. Waterside hypotheses of human evolution are entirely plausible and evidence-based. Max Westenhöfer, who indeed worked for the Nazis, is a very minor side story in its history and arguments.
See www.whattalks.com and www.riverapes.com

That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 On An Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy In 1987 A jab at Reagan?

38 yrs ago today, the orange faced crooktraitor made his anti-west, pro-dictatorship position clear when he bought 3 full page ads in NYT, WaPo and the Boston Globe. Fresh from a trip from Moscow, why werent the American "intelligence" community alerted by this?
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilan...

Licking the arse of a genocidal, mass-murdering war criminal schizofascist.

We will never forget.

Слава Україні! Героям Слава!

Ceaucescu-like megalomania.
How embarrassing it must be for non-MAGA Americans to have *this* crooktraitor as their representative.

Please. Get. Rid.

Mafia mobile = kleptofascists.

Bravo. Kerch Bridge soon.

WHAT Talks

I returned to academia 25 years ago to try to figure out why the field are so sceptical about this. After a MSc @UCl & PhD @UWA I have learnt that there are no good answers, only very bad ones.
See www.whattalks.com and www.riverapes.com

#CRYNFO Very poor "pundit". Didn't know 77/78 Forest won the league.

People always exaggerate what's claimed. If they pretend it's arguing for mermaids, it's easy to knock down like a straw man.
Alister Hardy only ever asked:"Was Man *More* Aqutic in the past?" but most ignored the "more" bit, and few asked "and if so, how *much* more?"
Answer: not much more needed.

As Elaine Morgan always said... the most plausible hypothesis on human evolution. As someone who returned to academia to see why people sneer, after 25 yrs MSc @ UCL & PhD @ UWA, I think she was right.

WHAT Talks

It has never been "debunked". If any anthropologist tries to tell you that, ask them to cite a paper that did that. It's a pseudoskeptic myth. No scientific paper has ever defined the idea properly, let alone shown why it might be wrong. See www.whattalks.com and www.riverapes.com

Thinking about Charles Oxnard today, who died recently at the age of 91.
His book "The Scientific Bases of Anatomy" reminded us that learning anatomy is more than just "naming the parts".
As we start a new semester at UWA I asked ChatGPT to write a short essay about tissues in Charles' style.

Thanks Miles

WHAT Talks

I prefer the label "Waterside hypotheses of human evolution". See www.whattalks.com and www.riverapes.com

Some of us think they do!

Please don't tar waterside hypotheses of human evolution with that brush. No scientific paper has even defined thrm correctly, let alone "debunked" them.

Your work looks fascinating. I'll definitely buy the book. Is it available in Kindle format? (Hate Bezos but love eBooks!)

Yes we live right in the CBD on St Georges Terrace. Love Sydney.

I'm always up for interviews!! Any time!

My pleasure

Aw, thank you so much.