In reply to malk:
> any mention of the aquatic ape?
Not directly - but he does discredit the idea of an evolutionary 'tree', or that our evolutionary history was in any way 'linear' (eg, the popular image of modern humans passing through several stages of primate before reaching its modern state). For example, our genome shows that Homo Sapiens interbred with Homo Neanderthalis - and other human species - on multiple occasions throughout its early history.