By Elaine Morgan
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But it also reflected one other conclusion. One speaker commented that in the minds of many scientists AAT had apparently been “miscategorised”. That seems the right word for it. Other Sources T HAT EXPERIMENT was never repeated. I had to look for other ways of keeping up with what the official stance might be. One other possible source should have been the major professional journals. Unfortunately they continued to behave as if they were oblivious of the existence of any alternative to the savannah scenario.
In 1972 it was being confidently asserted by all the leading experts that the split between apes and humans occurred twenty million years ago, that Africa in the Pleistocene was in the throes of a horrific drought, and that bipedalism was a consequence of life on the savannah. 5. ” The people considered best qualified to judge are the people who have spent most of their lives learning and teaching about the current orthodoxy. They are naturally the ones most resistant to change. And they are in a position to ensure that supporters of change find it hard to get promoted or have papers accepted for publication.
It was a wellbalanced programme, and the discussions ranged over a wide range of topics, including primate behaviour, marine ecosystems, geophysical events, comparisons between fossil hominids of different dates and living species, the cultural anthropology of present-day tribes of hunters and of fishers, and physiological differences between apes and humans. Marc Verhaegen and Leon la Lumiere were present, together with newer supporters including Derek Ellis, Erika Schagatay, and Karl-Erich Fichtelius, who made then and continued to make valuable contributions to the debate.