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Elaine Morgan was born in Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, Wales. She 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, which discusses the reception of aquatic scenarios in academic literature. She graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, with a degree in English. She wrote for many television series including the adaptations of How Green Was My Valley and Testament of Youth. She won two BAFTAs and two Writers' Guild awards. She was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by Glamorgan University in December 2006.