[MRMEAN]

about 74,000 ya. It was only after glacier melt about 50-60,000 ya that they began to multiply and move inland up rivers. Nearly all the differences between these modern humans and other apes and other extinct hominids is directly related to a survival life style based on traversing an average of 40 or more miles a day constantly running up and down long narrow beaches and swimming the frequent channels between the beaches. Hair anywhere but the top of the head and a little patch covering the pubic area would be a restrictive nuisance that was selected out.

So if we want to follow our evolutionary heritage, we should run/swim 40 miles a day...in the nude?

[RightWingAtheist]

No, just the women.

[shuckmaster]

So if we want to follow our evolutionary heritage, we should run/swim 40 miles a day...in the nude?

and barefooted. When you're catching fish and shellfish by hand and trying to get to the seaweed before it bakes not to mention the occasional beached whale, you've got to stay on the move.