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Despite a lot of floofy rhetoric, we didn't evolve to spend time in the water. We're land apes with reflexes that try to get us out of the water after we've fa

Despite a lot of floofy rhetoric, we didn't evolve to spend time in the water. We're land apes with reflexes that try to get us out of the water after we've fallen in.

Jach 16y ago
Is this rhetoric you're referring to the water-ape hypothesis?
- ramchip 16y ago
  I was puzzled and looking for a joke until I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
- Semiapies 16y ago
  Really more a lot of swimming-education propaganda, but that's part of it, too.