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To: munchtipq
"Well, if you think about it, animals that have great speed and agility often have pretty specialized limbs to achieve those results. This means that they aren't very dextrous, that is to say, they aren't very flexible with what they can do. We don't have the agility, but our digits are much more dextrous than theirs, which means we can build and handle tools, etc. I think that qualifies as quite a big natural advantage. As far as the fur, well, some of us are still pretty hairy, but given removable clothes I think it's nicer to not have fur and be able to respond to temperature changes a little more efficiently."

We have the same number and density of follicles that Pan paniscus has, our hair is just finer and in most places, shorter.

98 posted on 03/22/2005 9:43:34 AM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: b_sharp

Relative hairlessness appears to be the result of sexual selection over the past hundred thousand years or so.


113 posted on 03/22/2005 10:01:16 AM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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