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To: TigerPaw who wrote (7487)	6/13/2000 10:51:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

I can't remember where exactly the really short gut came in but I don't think it was with the Australapithecine. There was a spinal column comparison done- and they found an interesting correlation between brain development and vertebral clues as to gut size. If you want I'll look it up.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7487)	6/13/2000 11:03:00 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

About 25 years ago I read a fascinating, well-written book called The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan. She propounded the theory (not original to her, but she expanded on it) that humans once passed through a semi-aquatic phase which caused us to evolve many of the differences which distinguish us from other apes such as hairlessness and subcutaneous fat instead of fur, bipedality, even language. She is assuming the validity of evolution, and frames some of her deductions in the feminist viewpoint of the times, but the notion of the Aquatic Ape as an explanation for at least some of mankind's differences from our simian relatives has gained more acceptance in anthropological circles in the last 25 years.