Download or read book The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis written by Elaine Morgan and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies: why we walk on two legs, why we are covered in fat, why we can control our rate of breathing? The answers point to one conclusion: millions of years ago our ancestors were trapped in a semi-aquatic environment. In presenting her case Elaine Morgan forces scientists to question accepted theories of human evolution.
Download or read book Elaine Morgan written by LEEWORTHY and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left wing, working class radical Elaine Morgan was a trailblazing woman writer, especially in tv writing where her credits included 'Lloyd George'. She also wrote about feminism and anthropology, with 'The Descent of Woman' and 'The Aquatic Ape'. This new biography celebrates her achievements and looks at the person behind the writing on her centenary.
Download or read book Aquatic Ape Hypothesis The written by Elaine Morgan and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking text presents the Aquatic Ape Theory, with new information, new questions and a wealth of documentary evidence. It is the most persuasive, closely argued case yet offered to explain the mystery of human origins.'
Download or read book The Scars of Evolution written by Elaine Morgan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular account of what is known as the 'aquatic ape' thesis.
Download or read book How Green Was My Valley written by Richard Llewellyn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Green Was My Valley" is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.
Download or read book The Naked Darwinist written by Elaine Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recently a weblog under the sub-heading of "pseudoscience" posed an interesting question: "If the Aquatic Ape theory explains so much, why do the majority of anthropologists not subscribe to it?" This book presents some fo the answers to that question."--Back cover.
Download or read book Red Sea Pilot written by Stephen Davies and published by Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the meticulously revised third edition of this comprehensive guide, authors Elaine Morgan and Stephen Davies build upon the foundations that have made Red Sea Pilot a classic title. Complemented by inspirational photography and new Imray plans, this guide paints a detailed portrait of the entire expanse of the Red Sea, from Aden to Suez and its canal. The leaps in sailing technology since the previous edition in the early 2000s are evident in this upgraded book. With advancements in satellite imagery, the book includes far more precise depictions of remote coastlines, harbours, and havens. Additionally, a dedicated section provides invaluable recommendations on readying your vessel for the unique conditions of the Red Sea. The result is a third edition of Red Sea Pilot that stands out not only for its rich content but also for its user-friendly approach, emphasising safety, preparation, and a sense of wonder for every cruiser in this fascinating cruising ground.
Download or read book Spinal Catastrophism written by Thomas Moynihan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, André Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal. Tracing its provenance through the biological notions of phylogeny and “organic memory” that fueled early psychoanalysis, back into idealism, nature philosophy, and romanticism, and across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology, Thomas Moynihan reveals the historical continuity of spinal catastrophism. From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from “railway spine” to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fanciful notion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history.
Download or read book The Waterside Ape written by Peter H. Rhys Evans and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are humans so fond of water? Why is our skin colour so variable? Why aren’t we hairy like our close ape relatives? A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into these questions. Other alternative evolutionary scenarios might, but these models have been rejected. This book explores a controversial idea – that human evolution was intimately associated with watery habitats as much or more than typical savannahs. Written from a medical point of view, the author presents evidence supporting a credible alternative explanation for how humans diverged from our primate ancestors. Anatomical and physiological evidence offer insight into hairlessness, different coloured skin, subcutaneous fat, large brains, a marine-type kidney, a unique heat regulation system and speech. This evidence suggests that humans may well have evolved, not just as savannah mammals, as is generally believed, but with more affinity for aquatic habitats – rivers, streams, lakes and coasts. Key Features: Presents the evidence for a close association between riparian habitats and the origin of humans Reviews the "savannah ape" hypothesis for human origins Describes various anatomical adaptations that are associated with hypotheses of human evolution Explores characteristics from the head and neck such as skull and sinus structures, the larynx and ear structures and functions Corroborates a novel scenario for the origin of human kind ‘... a counterpoint to the textbooks or other books which deal with human evolution. I think readers will see it as a clearly written, well-supported discussion of an alternativeperspective on human origins’. —Kathlyn Stewart, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa ‘There is a pressing need to expand discussions of human evolution to includenon-anthropocentric narratives that use comparative data. Dr Rhys-Evans’ specific expertise and experience with the human head, neck, ears, throat, mouth and sinuses, provides him with a distinct perspective from which to approach the subject of human evolution. Moreover, his understanding of non-anthropocentric views of human evolution (water-based models), allow him to apply a biological approach to the subject, missing in more traditional (savannah-based) models’. —Stephen Munro, National Museum of Australia
Download or read book Pinker s List written by Elaine Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Song of the Sparrow written by Lisa Ann Sandell and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is Elaine of Ascolat, the Lady of Shalott. At sixteen, Elaine is beautiful and brave, with a temperament as fiery as her long red hair. She lives on Arthur's army base with her father and brothers, the sole girl in a militaristic world of men. As she mends torn battle garments and heals wounds, Elaine often slips into daydreams, wishing the handsome Lancelot would see her as more than a tomboy. Then a new girl arrives, and Elaine is thrilled-- until Gwynivere proves to be cold and cruel. But when the two of them are thrown into a situation of gravest danger, they must band together in order to survive. Can Elaine find the strength to fight for the kingdom she has always believed in? This highly acclaimed novel is a beautiful contribution to the Camelot canon.
Download or read book The Book of Apples written by Joan Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a complete history of apples and a detailed survey of over 2000 of the world's apple varieties. Moving between continents and cultures, the authors look at the apple's role as a dessert fruit and in cookery; in cider making and the ornamental garden; in myth, medicine and religion. They revisit the apple's Victorian heyday when fine varieties were considered seriously as wines, and bring the story up to date with the apple's transformation into an international commodity.
Download or read book Were the First People Swimmers written by Judy Kaul and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your child asks, “Where did we come from?” and you wish you had a scientific explanation of human evolution to answer the question. Or you're grown up and you're still curious.How did our species become so different from the other great apes, or for that matter, from other mammals? More than a century and a half after Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published, the mystery of the “missing link” is still unresolved. Scientists agree on approximately when the split occurred between humans and our last common ancestors, but not how.Were the First People Swimmers? introduces the reader to an elegant, rigorous theory by Welsh writer Elaine Morgan, based on a hypothesis by marine biologist Alister Hardy, that our early Homo sapien ancestors evolved through natural selection in water. The theory became known as the Aquatic Ape Theory or “AAT.” Morgan wrote six books on human evolution and the theory.Were the First People Swimmers? guides you, with elementary text and playful illustrations, through empirical evidence that explains how the first humans could have started talking, lost their ability to run on all four legs, lost their fur, and acquired subcutaneous fat.Elaine Morgan provided ideas and feedback in the conception and planning of Were the First People Swimmers? The book encourages observation of nature, critical thinking and inter-generational learning.
Download or read book Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia Volume II written by Stephen Davies and published by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only cruising guide covering Southeast Asia in detail. This volume covers Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore & the Malacca Strait to Phuket. The text provides sailing directions supported by detailed black and white sketch charts and harbour plans. Climate and weather are discussed at length and there is a valuable section on tropical storms and typhoons. Other topics include countries, cultures, and politics. Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia is a unique source of information not only for the cruising yachtsmen but also for anyone planning to visit this diverse and fascinating area.
Download or read book Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia South China Sea Philippines Gulf of Thailand to Singapore written by Stephen Davies and published by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the North Sea and Baltic coasts of Germany and Denmark, this guide is a companion to Brian Navin's North Sea Passage Pilot and Cruising Guide to the Netherlands. It is organised on the basis of carefully selected routes which pick up most of the
Download or read book The Descent of the Child written by Elaine Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at evolution from the perspective of the child, from the development of the foetus and the experience of birth, to child rearing, growth and development, and the role of parents. Originally published in 1994 and now available in paperback.
Download or read book Laughing to Keep from Dying written by Danielle Fuentes Morgan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today's African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society racializes people and bolsters the powerful myth that we live in a "post-racial" nation. The latter in particular inspires artists to take aim at the idea racism no longer exists or the laughable notion of Americans "not seeing" racism or race. Their critique changes our understanding of the boundaries between staged performance and lived experience and create ways to better articulate Black selfhood. Adventurous and perceptive, Laughing to Keep from Dying reveals how African American satirists unmask the illusions and anxieties surrounding race in the twenty-first century.
