The diagram demonstrates the arguments proposed in the aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH) and related water-based models (e.g. the shore-based diet model), that swimming, diving, and a semi-aquatic lifestyle may have influenced human evolution, caused numerous adaptations in human morphology, anatomy and physiology.
This diagram is a plain description of the hypothesis and does not provide any support nor criticism to the arguments.
It must be noted that the points listed are not facts, but hypothetical claims that require further scientific investigations to verify their accuracy, falsifiability, and relevance to human evolution.
The possible adaptations are grouped into aspects: swimming, floating, diving, foraging, walking, running, pregnancy, infancy, gender, sex, and a zoom-in of the head and the upper body.
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