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Elaine Morgan

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[Wikipedia] Elaine Morgan OBE, FRSL, was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on evolutionary anthropology. She advocated the aquatic ape hypothesis, which advocated as a corrective to what she saw as theories that purveyed gendered stereotypes and failed to account for women's role in

Quotes by Elaine Morgan

“as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There…

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The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

Groove

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It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was…

Ancestry

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Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate…

Answers

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It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.

Objects

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“holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very…

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“The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three…

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I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into…

Believe

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“It would make it that much harder to delude ourselves that humanity's ancestors, alone in the animal kingdom, lost their hair by…

Animal kingdom

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Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that…

Behavior

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“subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was…

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“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago,…

Life

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“Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years.”

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Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA,…

Astonishing

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The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ...…

Believe

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