Why are humans so fond of water? Why is our skin colour so variable? Why aren't we hairy like our close ape relatives? A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into these questions.
Other alternative evolutionary scenarios might, but these models have been rejected.
This book explores a controversial idea - that human evolution was intimately associated with watery habitats as mu.
Crc Press The waterside ape: an alternative account of human evolution, paperback/peter h. rhys evans
