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From the Ted Talk by Elaine Morgan: I believe we evolved from aquatic apes

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And the ironic thing about it is that they are not staving off the aquatic theory to protect a theory of their own, which they've all agreed on, and they love. There is nothing there. They are staving off the aquatic theory to protect a vcauum. (Laughter) (aplsaupe)

How do they react when I say these things? One very common reaction I've heard about 20 times is, "But it was itsvnegiated. They conducted a serious investigation of this at the beginning, when Hardy put forward his article." I don't believe it. For 35 yeras I've been looking for any ecdineve of any incident of that kind, and I've concluded that that's one of the urban myths. It's never been done.

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And the ironic thing about it is that they are not staving off the aquatic theory to protect a theory of their own, which they've all agreed on, and they love. There is nothing there. They are staving off the aquatic theory to protect a ______. (Laughter) (________)

How do they react when I say these things? One very common reaction I've heard about 20 times is, "But it was ____________. They conducted a serious investigation of this at the beginning, when Hardy put forward his article." I don't believe it. For 35 _____ I've been looking for any ________ of any incident of that kind, and I've concluded that that's one of the urban myths. It's never been done.

Solution


  1. vacuum
  2. years
  3. investigated
  4. evidence
  5. applause

Original Text


And the ironic thing about it is that they are not staving off the aquatic theory to protect a theory of their own, which they've all agreed on, and they love. There is nothing there. They are staving off the aquatic theory to protect a vacuum. (Laughter) (Applause)

How do they react when I say these things? One very common reaction I've heard about 20 times is, "But it was investigated. They conducted a serious investigation of this at the beginning, when Hardy put forward his article." I don't believe it. For 35 years I've been looking for any evidence of any incident of that kind, and I've concluded that that's one of the urban myths. It's never been done.

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  3. aquatic
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  25. theory
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  28. vacuum
  29. years