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bngenoh:

--- Quote from: Laura on January 24, 2012, 09:38:24 PM ---Very interesting find.  Sometimes the remarks of the "ancients" were remarkably prescient.

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Yep they were, gotta love those long haired, toga wearing, dudes & dudettes of old. :D

parallel:
BBC Aquatic Ape documentary:

The Aquatic Ape Part I   (14:51) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuE4bkNly0
The Aquatic Ape Part II  (14:31) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGF_KXbB2sQ&feature=related
The Aquatic Ape Part III (20:28) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jK5ToB0BA&feature=related

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--- Quote from: Psyche ---Spindle cells are also found in the brains of the humpback whales, fin whales, killer whales and sperm whales [1][2], bottlenose dolphin, Risso’s dolphin, beluga whales[3]  and in the brains of African and Asian elephants.[4]
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This is really interesting. Are these spindle cells perhaps foremost a fatty diet thing?


--- Quote ---In his book The Driving Force: Food, Evolution and the Future (1989), [Dr Michael] Crawford explores many issues around "the land-water interface". To develop the large brain characteristic of the hominids, a chemical known as DHA was necessary. The lack of DHA in savannah food may explain the "degenerative evolution" of the brains of savannah species and the reason why Homo sapiens could not have evolved on the savannahs. The marine food chain, on the other hand, has an abundant supply of DHA. Early hominids had to make use of the marine food chain to enable the evolution of brain and brain size to keep pace with body size. Their claim that the human brain depended on the marine food chain suggests independent evidence in support of the importance of water in human evolution.
_http://home.pages.at/jhinrichs/aat/disp1dec.html
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A heated but interesting debate on AA Theory from 2002;
_http://www.sciforums.com/Aquatic-Ape-Theory-t-10394.html

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