Elaine Morgan OBE FRSL (7 November 1920 – 12 July 2013) was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on
evolutionary anthropology, especially the
aquatic ape hypothesis:
The Descent of Woman,
The Aquatic Ape,
The Scars of Evolution,
The Descent of the Child,
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, and
The Naked Darwinist (2008), which discusses the reception of aquatic scenarios in academic literature. She also authored
Falling Apart and
Pinker's List.