AAH, is for... (UPDATE)

Perusing the Deaths in 2013 site's list, I came across the following recorded under July 8th:

Edmund Morgan, 97, American historian and author.

It's audd that another notable person surnamed "Morgan" had died just 4 days before Elaine Morgan. Makes me wonder if this is a pattern-cluster... or in other words, another of the inner twin world "influences".   Elaine and Edmond Morgan have more in common than their notable status, initials and last name. They're both historians of sorts, albeit Edmund's field involves the more recent American history and Elaine's, ancient history... prehistoric humans.

Going back to Elaine's wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Morgan_(writer), I discover that her maiden name was Floyd.  I also discover that the etymology of Floyd is "flood"  http://www.houseofnames.com/floyd-family-crest, hence falling into the recently occurring "Water/Flood" pattern-cluster.  What makes this even audder, is that her specialized field of study was the "Aquatic Ape Hypothesis"... there's much ado about water lately.   Note the title of my June 23rd post: Peter Fraser RIIP, Fraser River Flood Warning?!... and note these others:

• Fore Warning of Medicine Hat Flood
• Alen Pamic RIIP, A Time Tou Pamic!! (UPDATE)
• Franz Eder's (RIIP) River + Fanny's Big Hat = Bow ...

And then note my more recent July 4th post: Nilo Floody RIIP, Arlan Stangeland RIIP: Fertile Floody Strange Lands.

Much has inspired me when it comes to Elaine Morgan. I love her spunky feminism, I love the fact that she dares to butt horns with those standing in the way of progress-- the old boys club.  I'm not saying that all old boys belong to the same club, butt let's face it, Alister Hardy was influenced by the old boys club golden rule-- don't break the status quo.  Note this excerpt from Alister Hardy's wiki page:

In 1930, while reading Wood Jones' Man's Place among the Mammals, which included the question of why humans, unlike all other land mammals, had fat attached to their skin, Hardy realized that this trait sounded like the blubber of marine mammals, and began to suspect that humans had ancestors that were more aquatic than previously imagined. Fearing a backlash against such a radical idea, he kept this hypothesis secret until 1960, when he spoke, and later wrote, on the subject, which subsequently became known as the aquatic ape hypothesis in academic circles.   

Simply put, he had been worried about losing his job... and rightly so because the old boys club in Academia had reared its ugly head, posturing their displeasure until he backed down, tail between his legs. This is't the first time that progress was slowed due to outside pressures, Darwin's research re: the evolution of the species was kept on the back burner for years due to fear of backlash... mostly from the religious right-- those who could not conceive that the bible and their understanding of was wrong.  Many like Darwin and Hardy have suffered stress associated with knowledge and truth that had the potential of upsetting the status quo apple cart, and THAT, is mankind's greatest shame and stumbling block toward progress.

Note this excerpt from the Aquatic Ape Wiki page

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis: 

Morgan has claimed the AAH was rejected for a variety of reasons unrelated to its explanatory power: old academics were protecting their careers, sexism on the part of male researchers, and her status as a non-academic intruding on academic debates. Despite modifications to the hypothesis and occasional forays into scientific conferences, the AAH has neither been accepted as a mainstream theory nor managed to venture a genuine challenge to orthodox theories of human evolution.

It's referred to as "confirmation bias" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias), and speaking of bias, note this next excerpt taken again, from the Aquatic Ape Wiki page:

In a 2012 paper, anthropologist Philip Tobias noted that rejection of the AAH led to stigmatization of a spectrum of topics related to the evolution of humans and their interaction with water. The result of this bias, in his and co-authors opinions, was an incomplete reconstruction of human evolution within varied landscapes.

More and more people ... including experts in various fields, are getting on board with the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, commonly referred to as AHH... it is a breath of fresh air after all... and I do believe, Tou is biased in favour of AHH.