Publications philosophy
1.
Publications and oral presentations
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
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