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...but I think diving played a larger part in the genetic selection for Aquaporin.
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There is one thing I cannot understand about Aquatic Ape hypothesis.
It claims that spending time in/around the water brought some evolutionary adaptations to humans. Assuming this is true, I wonder why our eyes did not adapt for underwater vision also. Eyes do adapt very quickly and it would take fairly modest change (evolutionary speaking) to see better underwater. Considering vision is the sense primates most rely on (our “top” sense) it seems it would have been under high evolutionary pressure (hence speeding it up).
