Posts by Rev Illuminatus Maximus

There has never been a confirmed mermaid sighting, and some researchers speculate that people who’ve claimed to have seen one… actually saw creatures like manatees… However, some researchers have suggested the “Aquatic Ape Theory.” They claim that during a period of massive coastal flooding, some ancestors moved inland and others went into the ocean for…

A new study published in Nature reveals how the genes of the jawless, eel-like parasitic fish the lamprey offer important clues about the evolution of the human brain. One of the authors of the paper, Marianne Bronner, a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, explains that: “Lamprey are one…

Morgan argues that sexual selection in favor of a feature can occur in a species only when that feature has already become established for other reasons. Once the aquatic ape became naked through cavorting in the water, sexual selection would ensure that nakedness continued. In like manner, the aquatic apes would not regard the retention…

Morgan reports that Basler examined one thousand schoolchildren and found, ‘9 per cent of the boys and 6.6 per cent of the girls had webbing between the second and third toes and in some the webbing may have extended between them all’ (in Morgan 34). As Odent and Johnson suggest, regarding webbing, ‘a congenital abnormality…