  == Greg Laden’s Blog posts demonstrate AAT paradigm shift == Dear fellow editors of Wikipedia, we have heard a lot on this ‘talk’ page about the importance of popular and scientific agreement and consensus. There seems to be a shared idea amongst a group of active editors (chief among them, as far as I can see, WLU), that popular scientific and wider community opinion is that the terrestrial model is well supported by the available data, whereas the aquatic model fails to have any support.  Editors here have made it clear that for this page to change from an ‘AAT is wrong’ page, to a page simply outlining what the history of the idea is and the arguments for and against it, it would need to be shown that the idea was being included as part of the popular scientific discourse, and have a degree of popular support.   Well, since Laden’s ‘Science Blog’ posts have been considered here ‘reliable sources’ for some time, I would like to submit two of his posts and their subsequent discussion sections, as well as a recent guest post on the Blog by Marc Verhaegen, as evidence that popular sentiment may have just shifted. It seems, judging by these posts and discussions, that there is as much if not more support for the AAT than against, and although alternatives have been offered (drift and terrestrialism), these have not been substantiated and seem to be poorly supported (both in terms of evidence and adherents).   I think these web blog posts and discussions should be linked to in the article, and used as justification to start using this page as a platform to communicate the latest developments and up to date ideas in the field (for example Verhaegen’s guest post), rather than a page dedicated to informing readers that the AAT is wrong.  http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/01/30/common-misconceptions-and-unproven-assumptions-about-the-aquatic-ape-theory/  http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/01/06/aquatic-ape-theory-another-nail-in-the-coffin/#comment-108212  http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/05/elaine-morgan-on-the-aquatic-a/#comment-108239    