What If Mermaids Were Real?
The "Mermaids" mockumentaries extrapolate on the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, which states the reason humans are so hairless compared to other mammals is because at one point, our ancestors temporarily took to water long enough for natural selection to favor sleek skin. Mermaids are, therefore, humans that never went back to land.
And that means mermaids have lungs, organs that even whales (which have been aquatic for 50 million years) have yet to lose (our genus, Homo, is only 1.
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