Why don't humans have fur?

[theEasterBunny]

 

[phrodeau]

They do, but they shave it off. Some of them use wax or tweezers.

 

[theEasterBunny]

They do, but they shave it off. Some of them use wax or tweezers.

I go for the natural look myself.

 

[Balladeer08]

You've never seen Robin Williams?

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

Because we developed clothes. We don't need fur anymore. It's called evolution.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Once we evolved past the monkey stage, God thought we needed new clothes.

 

[shoulderblade]

Because we developed clothes. We don't need fur anymore. It's called evolution.

In my opinion humans did not go from tree dwellers directly to plains dwellellers bvut wnent through an intermediate stage as water dwellers. Fur would create friction in water and catch parasites so it was dumped.

Why do males have more body hair than females? Because as hunters they spent time in the water.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Probably because less hair became a desirable trait for ensuring the absence of parasites on a potential mate. Around 1.2 million years ago.

A good read on this is Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade. It's the biography of us.

 

[Devil'sChild]

Might as well ask why don't newbs have brains.

 

[colddiesel]

In my opinion humans did not go from tree dwellers directly to plains dwellellers bvut wnent through an intermediate stage as water dwellers. Fur would create friction in water and catch parasites so it was dumped.

Why do males have more body hair than females? Because as hunters they spent time in the water.

???Fur seals- otters - ursus maritimus (polar bears)- platypus- beavers. All furry aquatic mammals

 

[CHNOPS]

No one in this thread didn't google.

 

[oggbashan]

I have fur.

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I could shave it off, but my wife wouldn't recognise me.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Because we developed clothes. We don't need fur anymore. It's called evolution.

I do not think so.

I think it is like many of the mammals that returned to the sea. I get my history in bits and pieces, but I believe that many of our earliest gathering points as hunter-gatherer groups were near the ocean and other large bodies of water, in short, the plains and mountains may have had too much competition, so we were returning to the water.

Just a maybe, just a thought, but I think the loss of hair, evolution being such a long-time process that perhaps we had begun shedding hair (we, like some dog breeds, do not have fur, although if you put a gun to my head and told me life and death, what's the difference, you would have to pull the trigger) long before we were fashioning clothes.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

When Junior was not quite 3 and was riding in his car seat, he reached over and rubbed my arm and asked, "Daddy, why do you have fur?"


I guess I'm a few million years behind the evolution curve in the minds of three-year-olds.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I ain't got very much proving, once again, how much more highly evolved us Injuns are...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I went out and bought my first good suit ever, so when called upon, I can cover my un-evolutionarized state with garments of the oppressor.


It'll be ready some time next week, after alterations.

 

[Jessie_Pinkman]

Because Walmart forbids it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

INFI(de)L-traitor!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Because Walmart forbids it.

You missed the isolated blurt thread by a country mile.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Right. I toss us working people under passing busses.


The stimulus recommences today, as per normal.


And Winter seems to be blowing back in this week, too, damn it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Just as we are beginning a warming trend.



I will shed clothes, but grow no new coat...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I need to grow more fur in the next 45 minutes.


The new construction is very nice . . . painted, lights on . . . and no fucking heat.


So I celebrate by *spit* -ing on the floor.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sabumnim used to tell me in the cold air of the dojang...



... highah, hahrda, fasta!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I talk to the cabinets as I install them.


Whax on!!!


Squooze in!!!


Don't fallah off!!!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Wait! Wait Cabinets! Don't Fall!



Wait until we've been paid!!!