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Quotes from Elaine Morgan

It would make it that much harder to delude ourselves that humanity's ancestors, alone in the animal kingdom, lost their hair by wandering out into the sunshine.
~ Elaine Morgan
In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the north end of the Rift Valley where the most ancient hominid remains have been found, one section of the l. c. a. population found itself living in a watery environment and—whether by choice or under duress—began to adapt to a semi-aquatic existence.
~ Elaine Morgan
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. From time to time something happens to shake them out of that groove.
~ Elaine Morgan
Whales and dolphins have been aquatic for about 70 million years and seals for between 25 and 30 million years.
~ Elaine Morgan
The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.
~ Elaine Morgan
subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a horse gone wonky.' Throughout most of the
~ Elaine Morgan
holy scripture was believed to justify her subordination and explain her inferiority; for even as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey a
~ Elaine Morgan
as a copy she was not a very good copy. There were differences. She was not one of His best efforts. There is a line in an old folk song that runs: 'I called my donkey
~ Elaine Morgan
Hacen falta dos para bailar, y hacen falta dos para convertir a una mujer en objeto sexual.
~ Elaine Morgan
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
~ Elaine Morgan
The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.
~ Elaine Morgan