From an evolutionary perspective, why are humans relatively hairless?

I am curious to hear peoples thoughts on why humans are hairless and "squishy" from a evolutionist perspective/reasoning.

I will expound on why later.

 

The essence precedes the existence many ways "the Addam's Family" shows it on; the family of Gomez and Mortisia have the sober pathos from the Gods above to care for them. the films of QUentin Terrintino do a good job for showing this too. The essence in this case is abstractly abnormal psychology; in the older ideas the essence was anti-realistic (conventional constructs).

 

THe left Hegelian view in those Narcissist times was more pompous and technically explained.

 

Practically a mammoth cannot live in the tropics but a naked man can live in both the tropics and also in high latitudes with the use of mammoth skins. Fur coats are seasonally adjusted for peculiar ecozones. We can live in any climate by changing our covering. Perhaps natures version as opposed to the accusation that we are naked and therefore shameful in some regard. To be naked in cold weather is not shameful, it can be deadly however.

 

You will expound on the purpose of curiosity?

 

From what I understand, humans are hairless because it allows our body to sweat, which in turn allows us to run long distances. I could be wrong but I think we're the only animal that can run for long periods at a time because we are able to sweat and cool our bodies down as we move, whereas other animals have to stop in order to cool down.

 

I doubt we'll ever know, definitively, why we are relatively hairless compared to other primates. I mean, we can say when the change happened (give or take a few thousand years) by studying pubic and head lice, but we can never know for sure why.

Personally, I suspect it has to do with how our bodies developed to cool ourselves.

 

Because we have worn clothes for so long. If everyone wore hats, our head hair would gradually disappear.

 

We know that we were "hairless" prior to the development of clothing.

 

Neotony. The retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood. Also called paedomorphism.

 

One of the three dimensions of heterochrony. That is the mechanism, the how because helpful is a matter of timing and relative engagement. The purpose, the why is our temperate nature. Lack of fur or feathered covering is a more efficient adaptation for the abstract apprehension of nature or the ability to occupy any ecozone or even interplanetary zones.

Is this why an inspiration of the organic, maya, or does it come from some transcendent cause, alien/divine seed often becomes the question.

 

Maybe its where we evolved to begin with. The heated environment of Africa coupled with the intense sun produced hairless darkskinned ancestors.

Im just shooting with a blindfold on. Im not trying to play an expert, just trying to contribute.

 

one hairy ape got to close the fire.. :leaving:

 

Pine pitch waxing experiments.

 

clothes + shelter + fire = hair no longer needed for warmth

no hair = resistance to lice and other varmuts

maybe what melia said about sweating too

 

We know we were hairless prior to the development of clothing though, given the study of lice.

 

based on the way i lose upper knee hair during summer from wearing shorts...and ankle hair from sweatpants and socks in the winter...id have to say its probably because of clothing

 

so maybe the lice resistance first, along with fire and shelter.

clothes maybe made hairlessness sustainable, and encouraged the trend

 

Perhaps. However, the trend was already in progress for approximately 100,000 years prior to the development of clothes. Head lice predates clothing lice by around 100,000 years, and pubic lice predates them both by around 3 million years.

 

I don't really think the clothing theory makes much sense because humans would really have no reason to start wearing clothes until we were already losing hair.