How Credible is the Aquatic Ape theory? Subharmonic Sound from the Future due to water?

So the key feature of the "Alone in the Arctic" survival show was that eating a big moose did not help since the other predator competitors STOLE the fat!! This was a serious problem - the "winner" was an expert at trying to stay alive (not storing food in his hut since he would get attacked in his hut) and trying to store the food cache out of reach - on tall poles. It didn't work - he even killed one wolverine - but another came along and stole his second attempt at moose fat storage!!

Nope - his only alternative was to turn to fish to get more fat to survive the winter. Therefore it became clear that ONLY fish was the means to surviving the winter. We can think of natives people in my area - they still rely on harvesting fish (and even sell it wholesale) - through use of nets. Westerners can not use nets on the lakes as that would take too many fish - since there are so MANY westerners doing fishing.

Of course now with lead poisoning from burning coal - then fish eating is limited to one fish a week!! So I used to fish EVERYDAY when I grew up - with a swamp dredged into a city lake - part of a chain of lakes - the symbol of Minneapolis. I was on that lake more than anyone else! I loved staring into the water and sunsets and going into a fishing trance - alone with "nature" - but then with more pesticides and fertilizers and the storm sewers draining pollution, etc. then I saw the wildlife get killed off.

And that's what happens even in ALONE also - the survivalists are out there stealing the food away from the foxes and wolverines and wolves, etc. Why? Because in the Arctic and far north - every animal can barely survive the winter. For example in my mini-forest - I had a family of chipmunks living in my teepee - they were PISSED when I tried sleeping in my teepee in the winter. haha. But they made so much noise that a Lynx came and ate the parents. So this past winter only the "baby" was left - now an alone adult happily living in my teepee (since I no longer slept there). But no - they did not survive the winter either - so that chipmunk must have been eaten (probably by the same lynx but maybe by a pine marten).

In that Arctic Alone show - we see Lynx and Ermine (just a big bigger than pine marten) - and fox and - the intro shows bear and wolves (but I didn't notice them being filmed by the actual contestants) - and moose - and wolverine - and fish of course. Quite the variety of mammals and wildlife.

Now back to us humans - we know our big brains require a lot of fat (and lecithin of course).... for myelination of the nerves - to  maintain the "charge" for lots of thinking! So if ONLY Fish enables surviving in the arctic - then our big brain origins most likely REQUIRED a fish dominant diet - right?

Let's take a closer look.

Evolution: a new boost for 'aquatic ape' theory

The theory was first proposed in 1960 by British biologist Sir Alister Hardy, who believed apes descended from the trees to live not on the savannah as is usually supposed, but in flooded creeks, river banks and sea shores — some of Earth’s richest sources of food.

Cool - he wrote the "Dog is to Man as Man is to God" book - excellent ethology anthropology work.

 “Humans have particularly large sinuses, spaces in the skull between our cheeks, noses and foreheads,” he added. “But why do we have empty spaces in our heads? It makes no sense until we consider the evolutionary perspective. Then it becomes clear: our sinuses acted as buoyancy aids that helped keep our heads above water.”

Wow - that's pretty weird. I can't really believe that. They're not air SACS like the air bladder of a fish... how would they "hold" the air?

Our brain biochemistry is also revealing. “Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid found in large amounts in seafood,” said Dr. Michael Crawford, of Imperial College London.“It boosts brain growth in mammals. That is why a dolphin has a much bigger brain than a zebra, though they have roughly the same body sizes. The dolphin has a diet rich in DHA.

 Yes my last friend in the evil city - the Artist Professor Primitivist John Beaulieu - he was 85 years old when I last hung out with him. He left his body a couple years ago - so he was around 94 years old. He did really well for a male - he ate a tin of salmon every day!! That was his secret.

so this google book section emphasizes that "wading in water" by primates then enables being bipedal

Yeah it makes sense - the Planet Earth series shows this well. Its Macques I think - or baboons - walking long distances upright - in the water of course.

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2017/07/human-evolution-in-the-sea-at-bioko/

https://www.livescience.com/10664-ancient-brain-food-helped-humans-smart.html

1995 argument for Aquatic Ape origins of humans

 At least human bipedalism, nakedness, and subcutaneous fat layer have been explained by this mechanism (Barber, 1995; Giles, 2011; Tanner, 1981).

 . Only proponents of the aquatic/waterside hypotheses (collectively known as the aquatic ape hypothesis or AAH) seem to maintain that it is possible to explain most of the uniquely human traits as adaptive responses to a specific external factor (e.g., Morgan, 1997; Vaneechoutte, Kuliukas, & Verhaegen, 2011), but these views have found little resonance in paleoanthropological journals (Bender et al., 2012). Indeed, AAH has been fiercely opposed and criticized for being an umbrella hypothesis that attempts to explain everything, for being unparsimonious, for lacking evidence and even for being pseudoscience (Hawks, 2005; Langdon, 1997; Moore, 2012).

  In addition, there were nine traits for which only one explanation has been proposed in the literature, and this was related to the aquatic ape hypothesis. The third part asked about the respondents’ views on criticism against AAH.

 A descended larynx can evolve as an adaptation to diving (as in some aquatic mammals), because it makes it possible to close the air passages when under water and to inhale rapidly through the mouth when surfacing.

 Humans have a relatively weak sense of smell, as aquatic mammals often do.

 Humans have partial webbing between their fingers and toes. Webbed feet are common among semi‐aquatic animals (such as otters and ducks), but are not found in nonhuman primates.

 weird!

 The diving reflex (slowing down of heartbeat and oxygen usage in water) increases the resistance of the brain to apnea, and its magnitude in human divers is comparable to that in semi‐aquatic mammals such as otters and beavers.

  However, four hypotheses (that baby swimming, profuse sweating, diving ability, and magnitude of diving reflex evolved as adaptations to a semi‐aquatic way of life) received so many “moderately likely” scores that the percentage of respondents who found them likely was slightly larger than the percentage who found them unlikely (Figure 4).