Word: aquaticus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permits men to stay under water for considerable periods, but it involves a lot of expensive and bothersome apparatus. A better system, says Cousteau, would be to provide man with artificial "gills" through which his blood could flow and pick up oxygen. Even better would be a true Homo aquaticus, a fishman able to get his oxygen directly from the water as the fish...