Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:43:29 UTC No. 16622392

>>16622391
hair is the skins skin

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:04:56 UTC No. 16622568

>>16622391
AI slop.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:07:00 UTC No. 16622570

>>16622391
>Virtually every mammal (excluding aquatic) has fur/hair covering their entire body
what is an elephant

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:10:58 UTC No. 16622572

>>16622570
What is a (woolly) mammoth?

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:16:41 UTC No. 16622577

>>16622572
Fair enough.
Still, both extant groupings of elephants are about as far removed from being "furry" as humans are.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:23:17 UTC No. 16622584

>>16622577
Why not answer the obvious question: can similar developments of other animal species explain how humans lost their hair? Keep in mind that these kind of questions are asked often because one is not satisfied with reddit answers.

Anonymous !niqjediPCA at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:35:29 UTC No. 16622587

>>16622391
>Why did we lose our fur?

clothing you fucking moron.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:48:45 UTC No. 16622601

>>16622584
Fine, fine, I'll play ball.
Humans didn't lose their fur - you have roughly the same hair follicle density as a chimpanzee. It's just that your body hair is significantly thinner, and though it's far from universally-agreed, the most widely-accepted explanation is the so-called savannah hypothesis.
As earlier humans moved from shady and relatively cool forests to the open savannah, thermoregulation became a problem, and the solution evolution went with was to thin out body hair and to make sweating more efficient.
Parallel reasoning can be seen in a few African megafauna, from the bush elephant to the hippopotamus to a handful of rhinoceros species

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:55:46 UTC No. 16622679

>>16622601
But then there's Lions, Cheetahs, zebra, giraffe, hyena etc.. why did hippos and elephants change but not them?

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:53:39 UTC No. 16622769

>>16622601
First of all I'm wary of circular reasoning and confirmation bias. How to avoid the trap of first assuming a reproductive advantage and then searching for a fitting hypothesis that might not even be falsifiable? Perhaps that's too general of a criticism so to engage more specifically with:
>thermoregulation
That's only selective in combination with other factors like climate and movement. Isn't the hypothesis that human species evolved to be long distance runners for hunting and scavenging highly controversial? And why do animal species that sprint not evolve thermoregulation like humans?

You see we're not satisfied with ELI5 around here.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:00:52 UTC No. 16622809

>>16622568
I'm sure even you have felt exton defioin sometimes

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:43:30 UTC No. 16622969

>>16622391
>(excluding aquatic)
That right there, OP. We went through an aquatic phase in our evolution.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:48:23 UTC No. 16622988

>>16622568
there's no getting rid of it now

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=za-6RgoJer4