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The Descent of Woman: Come On In, the Water's Lovely

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Elaine Morgan, a Welsh housewife on a whistle-stop tour of America, where her book The Descent of Woman has reached No 7 in the top sellers' list. Its theme, a carefully reasoned argument that Man in evolving from ape spent ten million years in the sea as a semi-aquatic creature, has caused one of the greatest-ever storms in the world of anthropology.
(From housewife to bestselling authoress: page 3)

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Subject:
Elaine Morgan
Producer:
Jeffrey Iverson
Source: Radio Times

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