Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining. — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth.… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share
Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy.… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.” — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“It would make it that much harder to delude ourselves that humanity's ancestors, alone in the animal kingdom, lost their hair by wandering out… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
