Updated page Anthropogeny.net now moved to BiokoApes.com ( http://BiokoApes.com ) * Where, when, & why did humans originate?* The earliest human DNA ( 'Y-DNA Adam' ) and language ( Khoi-San with 'clic

There is sometimes a tendency in computer programming to not be interested in developments that were invented by competitors. This is called the Not-invented-here syndrome. There is a similar tendency

Where could a single family or a thousand families survive for ten years without clothes, fire, weapons or tools? One of those places might be where bald-bodied humans evolved. The place would have to

Chimpanzees and gorillas are quadrupedal, walking on four legs. Their hands land on their knuckles, not their palms. Orangutans sometimes walk on their knuckles also. Elaine and most primatologists th

In December 2021 I discovered that Elaine Morgan had posted over 5000 messages on the discussion site AAT@groups.io. She posted most of these messages under the pseudonyms 'Rob Dudman' and 'Bill' in t

I think I am about to be expelled from the discussion at AAT@groups.io. The monitors, and several others, would like to be rid of me. They don't want to hear more about Bioko Apes. That model competes

I think human ancestors lost their arboreal habitat in exactly the same way that Galapagos iguanas did. They are called ' marine iguanas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_iguana ) ', not 'aquatic

(This seems to be the first scientific publication of AAT, and the first to use the term 'aquatic ape theory'. I'm surprised that it is not better known. Allan) THE AQUATIC APE THEORY RECONSIDERED S.C

There are currently about 5000 languages spoken in the world, and a third of them are in Africa ( http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistoriesResponsive.asp?historyid=ab13 ). Human language prob

In a 2020 article in Nature, scientists reported on the DNA of human skeletons buried on mainland Africa near Bioko (their blue star). They detected 'ghost modern' genes, and wondered where this large

This article in 2016 nicely explains current scientific interpretations of human genetic diversity. https://theconversation.com/genetic-studies-reveal-diversity-of-early-human-populations-and-pin-down

If a population of chimps evolved in an isolated aquatic habitat with no predators for a million years, wouldn't they become just like humans? No fossils of a chimp or any other mammal have ever been

Early humans lived a *Hunter-gatherer* lifestyle. They must have evolved from apes that lived an *Arboreal gatherer* lifestyle. But between these two stages in human development, other stages must hav

Remarkable species often evolve on islands, a phenomenon known as "the island syndrome". The mild climate of an island can explain why humans did not need fur for warmth or sun protection. The lack of

*Bioko* *island postulated to be the aquatic location* ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The earliest Y-chromosome DNA (A00) and language (Khoi-San with 'clicks') are in west Africa, from about 200,000 years ago. But how could anatomically modern humans suddenly start there, having left n

As I posted last week, Y-DNA (paternal lineage, Haplogroup A00) seems to point to western Africa, near Bioko. Mitochondrial DNA (maternal lineage, Haplogroup L1) seems to point to more or less the sam

I had no idea where in Africa geneticists thought 'Y-Chromosomal Adam' was from, but obviously I was pleased to discover this MAP of haplogroups and languages. ( https://i.redd.it/18pehdtc72yy.jpg ) I

In the Bioko model of human evolution, human skin evolved from neutral-colored chimpanzee skin. The aquatic apes lost their fur and evolved into naked humans, because they were mostly in the water, at

We don't know how old Bioko Island actually is, or when the ancestors of humans might have rafted there. The oldest known rocks on the surface of Bioko are about 1 million years old (see Figures 1 and