According to evolutionary biologist Peter Wheeler ... a few suggest an alternate possibility. Aquatic Ape Theory, posed by marine biologist Alister Hardy in the 1930s, postulates that several ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

we can observe the gradual accumulation of these aquatic adaptations in the lineage that led to modern whales. As evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin points out, "In one sense, evolution didn't ...

Researchers have sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, helping uncover the evolutionary history of our closest relatives and offering insights into what makes humans human.