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Quote by: Jubloz Actually, the AAH was proposed by marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy.

Indeed. But Sir Alister presented only a very simple hypothesis in a talk to a SCUBA club and then later reiterated the same in an article published in science news magazine. The idea was never "published". By that I mean that it was never presented to the scientific community for review, i.e., it was never clearly stated, the evidence was never investigated, no predictions were ever made, and it was never tested, and no results of testing were ever published in peer reviewed scientific journals.

I know that a playwright wrote several books on the subject, but is this sufficient to discredit it as a possibility?

That's a TV scriptwriter who was at the time a graduate student in English. If she later actually wrote plays I don't know and I don't care. The point is she had no scientific qualifications, not even as an amateur.

But is that enough to discredit the fantasy as a possibility? No. But we can discredit it as science since no science has been done about the supposed "hypothesis." Please, state the evidence, offer an hypothesis, make a prediction, design and execute your experiment, and then publish your results in a peer reviewed journal.

The popular alternative, the savannah hypothesis, has a number of flaws that make the idea questionable or, in the least, in need of refinement.

I don't doubt that. Please detail them for us and cite specific articles insupport of the "savannah hypothesis" to which you object with your reasons for objection.

Did you get this stuff from Wikipedia? It states that Morgan got her idea by reading popularizations of something called the "savannah hypothesis." Notice, she didn't actually read science.

It just doesn't have any scientific support that would cause anyone to 'go with' it.