If the aquatic ape theory is "pseudoscience", how do we explain people in landlocked areas used to have constant iodine deficiency until we started to artificially iodize table salt? How could a savannah species have evolved to be so dependant on iodine?
>>16789300i'd prefer aquatic rape (female dolphin raping me)
>>16789300>How could a savannah species have evolved to be so dependant on iodine?This is true of most savannah species. African elephants have to eat rocks for this reason
>>16789429But elephants/proboscidae are certainly descended from a semi aquatic species too, closely related to sirenians.
>>16789456That was 60 million years ago though. They would have had more than enough time to evolve out dependence on marine iodine
>>16789300Most land animals get their iodine from plants in iodine rich soil.When humans stopped being migratory animals, not all of them settled in regions where iodine was common in soil. Iodine is not just common in soils near the ocean, but also in places that used to be ocean.
>>16789468Not if they stopped being semi aquatic fairly recently and evolved strategies (geophagy) to supplement iodine (just like we did with fish trade and now salt iodization).
>>16789496>Not if they stopped being semi aquatic fairly recentlyThey didn’t. Large terrestrial elephantiformes have been around for 30-40 million years
