The River Apes® are a set of ten children's stories which tell how chimpanzee-like apes were gradually transformed, through seven million years of natural selection, into human beings. Based on the controversial, but fascinating Aquatic Ape Theory they describe how our distant ancestors discovered fish and then began living in the rivers of East Africa. They attempt to explain why our ancestors started walking, how they lost their fur and when they started talking. 

Using a fantastic time-machine, the young reader is invited to journey back in time to visit the places described in the stories. What we see there is amazing. 

The River Apes stories are dramatic tales, full of heroines and heroes, disasters and discoveries and non-stop action from Upe, the first River Ape to Rozalija, our youngest daughter. They are just stories, but they have been written with the aim of describing what might have happened and are, as far as the author can tell, entirely consistent with the fossil and genetic record.

Get a sample of story 1 in PDF format now.

They'll be available for downloading over the internet soon. Watch this space for details! 

Goodbye Chimpmanzillas... Lucy Wades through the Lake... Swaima's Fat Branch & the Megadonts... Naked Apes versus the Crocodiles... Seasiders, Riversiders & Firemakers (Or the Good, the Bad & the Ugly)... The Rise and Fall of the Aquafarians... The End of Aquafaria... How We Conquered the World... Carriers of the Christian Meme... Origins in the 20th Century

  Story Title Time span covered
1

Goodbye Chimpmanzillas

Between 7 and 5¼ million years ago (mya)
2

Lucy Wades through the Lake

Between 5¼ and 3½ mya
3

Swaima's Fat Branch & the Megadonts

Between 3½ and 2½ mya
4 Naked Apes versus the Crocodiles Between 2½ and 1½ mya
5 The Seasiders, The Riversiders and The Firemakers Between 1½ million and 750,000 years ago
6 The Rise and Fall of the Aquafarians Between 750,000 and 500,000 years ago
7 The End of Aquafaria The End of Aquafaria Between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago
8 How We Conquered the World How We Conquered the World Between 100,000 and 10,000 years ago
9 Carriers of the Christian Meme Between 10,000 and 100 years ago
10 Origins in the 20th Century Last 100 Years

To find out more about The River Apes e-mail :algis@RiverApes.com

To Find out more about the Aquatic Ape Theory click here.

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