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Origin of Life:

Vaneechoutte, M., and R. Fani. 2009. From the primordial soup to the latest universal common ancestor. Res. Microbiol. 160: 437-440.

Vaneechoutte, M., and R. Fani. 2009. Editors of Res. Microbiol. Special Issue on the Origin of Life

Vaneechoutte, M. 2000. The scientific origin of life. Considerations on the evolution of information, leading to an alternative proposal for explaining the origin of the cell, a semantically closed system. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 901: 139-147. Closure: Emergent organizations and their dynamics. J.L.R. Chandler & G. Van de Vijver, Eds., New York. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06273.x.  (pdf)

Vaneechoutte, M. 1999. The memetic origin of life: nucleotide strands as prebiotic linguistic symbols. Pp. 25-28. In Proceedings of "Closure, emergent organizations and their dynamics", workshop organized by the Research Community on Evolution and Complexity & Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS). 3-5 May 1999, Ghent, Belgium.

Vaneechoutte, M. 1998. The replicator: A misnomer. Conceptual implications for genetics and memetics. Oral presentation at the First Symposium on Memetics. Published in "Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Cybernetics. IX. Symposium on Memetics." (pp. 408-412), organized by the International Association of Cybernetics. 24-28 August 1998, Namur, Belgium.

 

Origin of Mankind:

http://aquatic-human-ancestor.org/evidence/waterside-ape-bbc-r4-response-to-critics.html

 

Mansfield, F., and M. Vaneechoutte. 2024. Current evidence indicates a Eurasian origin for the Last Common Ancestor  of African apes and humans, and supports a new hypothesis suggesting that the Zanclean Megaflood (5.3 Ma) may have played a role in the ultimate  divergence of Pan and Homo. Ideas Ecol. Evol. 17: 1–21. doi:10.24908/iee.2024.17.1.n.

Vaneechoutte, M., F. Mansfield, S. Munro, and M. Verhaegen. 2024. Have we been barking up the wrong ancestral tree? Australopithecines are probably not our ancestors. Nature Anthropol. 2: 10007. doi:10.35534/natanthropol.2023.10007.

Vaneechoutte, M. 2013. Unique Homo characteristics – Are  they compatible with a semi-aquatic past. Oral presentation at: Human evolution. Past, present and future: Anthropological, medical and nutritional considerations. Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, London, UK. May 8-10, 2013. Link. Programme

Vaneechoutte, M. 2012. Were our ancestors more aquatic in the (recent) past? Possible implications for our reproduction and reproductive behaviour. Chairman of workshop C5. October 26, 2012. The Mid-Pacific conference on birth and primal health research. 26-28 October. Honolulu, Hawai. Link

Vaneechoutte, M., S. Munro, and M. Verhaegen. 2012. Reply to John Langdon’s review of the eBook: Was Man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy. Waterside hypotheses of human evolution, Mario Vaneechoutte, Algis Kuliukas, Marc Verhaegen (Eds.). Bentham eBooks (2011). 244 pp., eISBN: 1 9781608052448. HOMO. J. Comp. Biol. 63: 496-503. Link. pdf

Vaneechoutte, M., and M. Verhaegen. 2012. Was Man more aquatic in the past? Oral presentation at: Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBIN), Brussels, Belgium. September 13, 2012. Link

Vaneechoutte, M., and M. Verhaegen. 2012. Was Man more aquatic in the past? Oral presentation at: Staff pediatrics Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. April 17, 2012.

Vaneechoutte, M., and M. Verhaegen. 2012. Was Man more aquatic in the past? Oral presentation at: Wallacea, Faculty of Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. February 10, 2012.

Vaneechoutte, M., A. Kuliukas, and M. Verhaegen. 2011. Was Man more aquatic in the past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy. Waterside hypotheses of human evolution. Bentham publishers. e-book. ISBN 978-1-60805-244-8.

Verhaegen, M., S. Munro, P.-F. Puech, and M. Vaneechoutte. 2011. Early hominoids: Orthograde aquarboreals in flooded forests? Pp. 67-81. In: Vaneechoutte, M., A. Kuliukas, and M. Verhaegen. 2011. Was Man more aquatic in the Past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy. Waterside hypotheses of human evolution. Bentham publishers. e-book. In press. ISBN 978-1-60805-244-8.

Vaneechoutte, M. and M. Verhaegen. 2011. Was Man more aquatic in the past? - Fifty years after Alister Hardy. Oral presentation at the Evolution, Complexity & Cognition Group, Free University Brussels, Belgium (ECCO, VUB). May 27, 2011.

Verhaegen, M., S. Munro, M. Vaneechoutte, N. Bender-Oser, and R. Bender. 2007. The original econiche of the genus Homo: open plain or waterside? Chapter 6 in Ecology Research Progress, pp. 155-186. Editor: S. I. Munoz, Nova Science Publishers, New York. ISBN 978-1-60021-807-1.

Vaneechoutte, M. 2000. Report of the symposium 'Water and Human Evolution'. Human Evolution 15 (3-4): 243-251.

Vaneechoutte, M. 1997. Bird song as a possible cultural mechanism for speciation. Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission, 1.

 

Origin of Language:

Vaneechoutte, M. 2014. The origin of articulate language revisited: The potential of a semi-aquatic past of human ancestors to explain the origin of human musicality and articulate language. Human Evol. 29: 1-33. pdf

Vaneechoutte, M. 2013. The origin of speech. At: Human evolution. Past, present and future: Anthropological, medical and nutritional considerations. Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, London, UK. May 8-10, 2013. Link

Vaneechoutte, M., S. Munro, and M. Verhaegen. 2011. Seafood, diving, song and speech. In:  Vaneechoutte, M., A. Kuliukas, and M. Verhaegen. Was Man more aquatic in the Past? Fifty years after Alister Hardy. Waterside hypotheses of human evolution. Bentham Publishers. e-book; 2011;Chapter 12:181-189. pdf.

Vaneechoutte, M. 1999. The cultural origin of language. Oral presentation at the "Symposium Water & Human Evolution", organized by the Research Community on Evolution and Complexity. 31 April 1999, Ghent, Belgium.

Vaneechoutte, M. & J.R. Skoyles. 1998. The memetic origin of language: humans as musical primates. J. Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission 1998;2. pdf.

 

Origin of Consciousness:

Vaneechoutte, M. 2000. Experience, awareness and consciousness: suggestions for definitions as offered by an evolutionary approach. Foundations of Science 5 (4):429-456. 

 

Origin of Religion:

Vaneechoutte, M. 1993. The memetic basis for religion. (Correspondence Letter). Nature 365: 290.

 

Memetics

Book Review: Martin De Jongh

 

2. Editor of

J. Memetics - Models of Information Transmission (obsolete)

 

3. Co-organisator of

Human evolution. Past, present and future: Anthropological, medical and nutritional considerations. Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, London, UK. May 8-10, 2013. Link

Symposium "Water & Human Evolution", 31 April 1999, Ghent, Belgium.

1st Symposium of Memetics, 3-5 May 1998, Namur, Belgium