Why Humans Lost Their Fur

Found on: DOGO News

Written by: Meera Dolasia

On: 19/09/2011
Link: http://www.dogonews.com/2011/9/18/why-humans-lost-their-fur 

Why early humans did lose their fur during the evolution? Well, that is a big question which many people didn’t know the answer to it, but now we know the answer to it. It is simply because with fur it is much easier to move; and you do not sweat.  Some scientists say that it is like athletes, they cut their hair to be more efficient. This is only a theory and it came from an advanced PC modeling program. The research says that from when human walked up – right, they started hunting more often (e.g. running away from a wild animal) and (like we do) the more we run the more we sweat. As time they improved as humters and also their physical features, in fact they lost their fur at a slow paste. So as they developed their fur disappeared and they were much more free to hunt and run even more. Though scientists aren’t still able to precisely confirm the date that they became totally skinned; an idea is around 3 million years ago. A only way they can surely know that by founding a dead early – human body under lava, because that is the only thing known that can preserve hair during a period of time.

I think that now we still have some remains of ‘fur’ in our body and I think through the years it is going to disappear, though maybe once fur helped keeping warm when the weather was cold. One question I have is how do humans evolve, what is the ‘thing’ which makes humans lose their fur, become in an up –right position. I also wonder how science(tists) gain all these types of info about early humans.  

So I hope you learned a great lesson of early humans and its related news.

   





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