The Aquatic Ape Theory and More

Expanded Perspectives

Science, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys start the show off talking about Halloween and the recent Live Show they did at the Panther Island Brewery in Fort Worth, Texas. Then, a duck hunter writes in with a terrifying encounter with a set of eyes in the woods.

After the break, Kyle brings up the Aquatic Ape Theory. Much more than other primates, man has several features that are seen more often in aquatic than terrestrial mammals: nakedness, thick subcutaneous fat-layer, stretched hindlimbs, voluntary respiration, dilute urine etc. The Aquatic Ape Theory states that our ancestors once spent a significant part of their life in water. Presumably, early apes were plant and fruit eaters in tropical forests. Early hominids also ate aquatic food; at first mainly weeds and tubers, later sea shore animals, especially shellfish. With the Pleistocene cooling, our ancestors returned to land and became bipedal omnivores and scavengers and later hunters of coastal and riverside animals.

All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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0:00.0	editor
0:30.0	What is going on y'all and thanks so much for joining us here on expanded perspectives with
0:40.9	me, Camel.
0:42.7	And as always, I'm not in here alone.
0:44.3	The King of the IPAs, Mr. Hazy Cat himself, Calvilsen.
0:48.1	How's it going everybody?
0:49.1	Yes, I'm here in beautiful Skeleton Studios.
0:51.1	This is Halloween week.
0:53.4	I guess Halloween was on Monday.
0:55.2	Technically this is Wednesday, but you know, it's the week of Halloween.
0:59.2	I hope everybody out there had a good time.
1:00.7	I know me and Luke and my wife did.
1:02.9	We did some trick or treating.
1:05.0	He did good.
1:06.0	Like normal.
1:07.0	We have a special neighborhood that we go to every year and they, these kids, I mean,
1:09.8	they clean up full size candy bars.
1:12.1	These are the ones where this is one of those neighborhoods where like every house is
1:15.8	participating and every house goes all out with decorations.
1:19.8	These people are into it.
1:21.3	And we started in that neighborhood years ago because a friend of ours lived in that neighborhood.
1:24.8	They've since moved, but we just continue to go to that neighborhood because it's so good.
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