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The German biologist Max Westenhõfer was perhaps the first to publish the idea in an evolutionary context. Using the principle of [[convergent evolution]], it says that life in an aquatic environment explains these features, and that a transition from ape to hominid in a non-aquatic environment cannot.

The German biologist Max Westenhõfer was perhaps the first to publish the idea in an evolutionary context. Using the principle of [[convergent evolution]], it says that life in an aquatic environment explains these features, and that a transition from ape to hominid in a non-aquatic environment cannot.

The theory is somewhat out of favor because several key pieces of evidence fail to support the theory. For example, hairlessness, while found in several aquatic mammals, is not indicative of aquatic mammals (see aardvarks and rhinoceros).

The theory is somewhat out of favor because several key pieces of evidence fail to support the theory. For example, hairlessness, while found in several aquatic mammals, is not indicative of aquatic mammals (see [[aardvark]]s and [[rhinoceros]]).

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