We are the aquatic primates

It took a lot of work for the technological-industrial culture to disarticulate the biblical patriarchal paradigm about the origin of the human species. Years of disinformation and religious authoritarianism created a culture without critical spirit that resisted hard to be replaced.
The new paradigm, which ultimately supplanted him, was also profoundly authoritarian. The "popes" of the industrial-technological aristocracy defined their dogmas and entrenched themselves to defend them by all means at their disposal. Those who were not or do not agree with the theories of "receipt" were or are considered heretical, ignored, ridiculed, and finally, excommunicated from their positions and excluded in the distribution of research funds.
The theory about human evolution, a key element of the prevailing scientific paradigm, is not an exception to this philosophy.
Several decades ago. scientific authorities decreed that our species originated in the African savannas. For this they produced numerous arguments, including several hundreds of fragments of bone fossils and some tools.
The "savannah" origin of human primates became an article of faith without practically anyone contradicting it.
Actually, since the 1930s, there was someone who dared. He was an English biologist named Allister Hardy who pointed out the contradictions of the "Theory of the Savanna" and proposed an alternative vision: human beings had developed as such in an amphibious stage of their evolution1,2.
In 1960, after almost thirty years of preaching the savannah theory, The New Scientist agreed to publish an article by Hardy entitled "Was man more aquatic in the past?" (March, 1960, pp. 642-645).
More than ten years passed without anyone daring to mention the matter.
Only in 1972 was published a new work that developed in depth the concepts of Hardy, made by a talented Welsh writer.
Her name was Elaine Morga0n and her work "The Descent of Woman" (The Descent of Woman). The title was a play on words contradicting the famous Darwinian book called "The Ascendancy of Man" (The Ascent of Man).
Morgan's book was totally ignored by the scientific "establishment". However, despite this, it did not go unnoticed by many people and gradually it became a "best seller".
Ten years later, Ms. Morgan published another book that expanded on the theme: "The Aquatic Ape" (The Aquatic Ape, 1982). Then followed "The Scars of Evolution" (Scars of Evolution), "The Aquatic Monot, Fact or Fiction" (The Aquatic Ape: Fact or Fiction, 1991). «The Descent of the Child» (The Descent of the Child, 1994) and «The Aquatic Monkey Hypothesis» (The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, 1997).
All the works of Elaine Morgan had great success in the public. Thirty years later it is very difficult to ignore the persistent writer, who also became an expert in paleo-anthropology.
The arguments of the "Theory of the Aquatic Monkey" are compelling.
Humans are very different from the animals of the savannah and, on the other hand, we have many affinities with amphibian mammals.
Like marine mammals, we have very little hair on the body, we have 10 times more fat than the other primates, and even more at birth. Unlike common fat in other apes, ours is subcutaneous fat that is part of the skin and comes off with it. It is the "white fat" type that does not provide immediate energy and serves rather as thermal insulation and to help to float (as in aquatic mammals). For brain development we require certain substances that are only found in fish and shellfish (for example, eicosoic acid).
We waste our inner water through sweat (large number of sweat glands) and salty tears (nonexistent in other primates), we practice frontal sex, such as seals and cetaceans, we can hold our breath for several minutes (which does not happen in other apes), and swim instinctively at the moment of birth.
On the other hand, our specific diseases and parasites require aquatic phases to develop, and the bipedalism that characterizes us (which is not found in any other saban animal, nor in any primmate, except us) is easily explained if we imagine an existence in the shallow waters
Reprinted of "Peoples, Drugs and Serpents", D.Antón, Piriguazú Ediciones