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From: paulc@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Paul Carroll)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Adaption to aquatic life (was: Questions about sex)
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Date: 9 Aug 90 17:07:23 GMT
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> Yes, this seems to be an aquatic adaptation.  Interested persons might want to
> read _The Aquatic Ape_ which proposes the theory that man is an partially
> adapted aquatic animal.  Take a good look at the description above.  We have
> all of those except the built in snorkel and webbing of digits.  We also have
> the mammalian dive reflex.... 

	Speak for yourself - it runs in my family, at least.
	(Only half funny, I suppose.)  All of my step-brothers and
	step-sister have two toes joined together on each foot.
	My own brother, sisters, and myself have only a partial
	joining.  One step-sister, who died a few hours after birth,
	apparently had severe webbing - I believe of both hands and
	feet.  Perhaps there is some genetic reason as to why I like
	water sports and swim like a fish .... :^)

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