Why Aren't Humans as Hairy as Other Mammals? Here's The Science.

Science Alert ^ | April 26, 2025 | Maria Chikina, The Conversation

[vpintheak]

Right… slowly, gradually over an insanely long period of time for some reason we became hairless because that makes total sense for any mammal to go without a protective layer… 🙄
It’s so blatantly clear how this stuff is such utter garbage when you really think about it. It’s hate for our Creator is all it is.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. We're all descended from one prehistoric ancestor, Pontius Depilatus.

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[Flaming Conservative]

Because we’re not related to animals. We are separate creatures, made in the image of God.

[SteveH]

in before the “i’m not saying it was aliens” guy

[Getready]

So obviously the hairless human did not “evolve” less hair. The gene is and was already there...it is just turned off.
The researcher should find out if sedentary people who don’t hunt for food by tiring out prey...get the hair gene turned back on. Lots of people are sedentary nowadays.

[alexander_busek]

Perhaps it was the ability of humans with a sugary omnivore diet to host a parasite in the hair follicles, such as Demodex Folliculorum [...]

I wouldn't call it an "ability." More like a "susceptibility" or "vulnerability."

Regards,

[sopo]

The armadillos object

[MNnice]

When the hairless aliens mated with the apes, the result was a creature that is almost hairless. Everybody knows that.

[Farmerbob]

Less hair meant less fleas and lice. Hunters wouldn’t scratch and fidget when stalking dinner. Chicks dig dudes that bring dinner.

[Chickensoup]

hormones

[nagant]

Unlike this flake, Elaine Morgan correctly answered this question in her book The Decent Of Woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Woman

Humans have acquired several drastic changes which separate us from our simian ancestors while others of their progeny changed very little. Of necessity, these changes would need to 1) all be related to a single niche we had to fill, and 2) all be related to the survival of hominid ancestor infants.

This flake’s explanation fills neither requirement.

[nagant]

Wow. The Morgan book link I posted is just wrong. Searching for a replacement.....

[nagant]

Elaine Morgan’s book The Decent Of Woman cites several human evolutionary changes which which were all adaptations to a marine environment.

1. Upright gait.
2. No fur.
3. Unique downward-turned nostrils.
4. Continuously growing head hair in women.
5. Infant survivability in water.
6. Infant finger grip.
7. Female subcutaneous fat layer.
8. Extra-muscular breasts.

While men were off chasing small animals surviving women were evading predators by running into the surf with their infants.

[nagant]

The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan

[Vaduz]

2. No fur.

Well most of it arm pits and groin to reduce friction hair on head for protection?.

It’s why you smell hair when fast walkers pass you.

[nagant]

Most women’s hair thins after infant-rearing age. LOTS of men lose most of their hair. Why wouldn’t continuously-growing hair in these people matter to species survival?

I’ll give you one point though. On men, where is the most vulnerable point to physical attack, and why do men have continuously-growing beards throughout our lives?

[Dr. Franklin]

Why do men and some women go bald in their later years.

Those who have studied this concluded it was way for the females to identify the older males of higher status in the primates for mating purposes.

[Dr. Franklin]

Why humans lost their hair The story begins about 7 million years ago, when humans and chimpanzees took different evolutionary paths. Although scientists can't be sure why humans became less hairy, we have some strong theories that involve sweat.

Until studies are published on the differences between man and sasquatch, we just won't know the answer to this.

[dforest]

Because we have Gillette?

[Vaduz]

Why wouldn’t continuously-growing hair in these people matter to species survival?

Ageing process even animals have some traits of it.

why do men have continuously-growing beards throughout our lives?
Not Native Americans it’s in the breeding process.