[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

The study also shows humans started wearing clothes well after they lost body hair, which genetic skin-coloration research pinpoints at about 1 million years ago, meaning humans spent a considerable amount of time without body hair and without clothing, Reed said.

Hmm. Why do they think there's any connection between skin coloration and body hair? Why did they hyphenate "skin-coloration?" Why do they think people would go about naked for over 800,000 years?

Anybody who could make shoes would also make other clothes, the same day never mind the same millennium. Hominid ancestors of the Neanderthals were in Europe well before 170kyo, were they not? They didn't get there without shoes. Having gotten there, they'd have needed more clothes; when did THEIR clothes harbor lice? ("I saw the harbor lice...")

[Alas Babylon!]

The Tasmanian aborigines didn’t wear clothes, and neither did the Tierra Del Fuego Indians, even though both lived in extremely cold Winter climates. They would lather grease all over their bodies, like long distance swimmers, to keep warm when it got too cold.

Maybe they hated lice more than cold.