Why is the Aquatic Ape Theory met with so much criticism unlike all the other theories surrounding our early ancestors?

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Just read about the AAT and how it’s surrounded with all this criticism. Why haven’t there been critiques of other theories like this one? Is it that hard to believe?

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The ELI5 is likely too simple to satisfy you. There is no evidence for it and it doesn’t line up with the evidence we have. It’s a “theory” more in the layman’s use of that term, e.i. it’s an idea someone thought of that might be possible. It’s not a theory in scientific terms because it doesn’t fit the existing pattern of data.

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