The aquatic ape theory, which is not popular among most professional palaeoanthropologists, holds that a number of our unusual features result from being basically amphibious and living on the beach and the sea millions of years ago during the Pliocene. When the forests became depleted due to the general drying phase, apes lost their natural habitat and most palaeontologists claim that they adapted to the savannah, but Elaine Morgan, Desmond Morris (who invented the term ';naked ape'; in the first place) and a few other people believe that they could not have survived in grasslands and actually used the sea to escape from predators. There are various bits of evidence for this, including nakedness like whales, seals, hippos and the like, for streamlining purposes, the presence of a hymen, the diving reflex, large subcutaneous fat reserves, breath control, the female orgasm and erect gait, plus a number of other features.
If this is true, and as i said it is an unpopular theory, hair loss came first.Why is man the naked ape? What came first, the clothes or the loss of hair?
i would definitely insist that all chimpanzees wear underpants, have you seen their rear ends? and not a hint of hair to cover it up.
i think the term 'naked' ape might come from the fact that we are aware of our nakedness rather than that our hair has disappeared, but you need to ask desmond morris or get the book to find out
good question:
i would say it was hair loss that we started to cover up in a bid to keep warm.
we saw animals covered in fur and took the fur and clothed ourselfs,
but i have heard said that we started wearing clothes first as a show
it was a statment that we was great hunters and a warning to other animals that we was killers and to be feared and other cavemen hunters
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Current theory is clothes first. As man developed the ability to use clothes hair became unnecessary, and since hair also can be a vector for disease carrying parasites, there was selective pressure to reduce the amount of body hair.
It might just turn out that hair loss had nothing to do with heat/cold.
';Humans may have lost their body hair to reduce their vulnerability to fur-loving parasites and therefore attract the opposite sex, a new evolutionary theory proposes';
clothes came first because the world was much colder than it is today and we didn't have much hair in the first place so what Little of it dropped of and so we needed to wear clothes which were made of animal skins that had come from the animals the humans killed and some amazonian and European tribes still where animal skins.
Well, you look at Robin Williams and he isn't missing any hair from his body. But he could be the exception to the rule. :)
hairless first dude. then clothes off. apes ga no clothes. dont compare urself 2 an ape. a u an ape? or sm
it is thought that we lost our hair first.
One theory is that we descended from the trees during a very wet era. This meant that we had to wade through large stretches of water to get from tree to tree. Hair would have been a disadvantage.
In Africa, it wouldn't be that cold anyway. We would have started to use clothes when we migrated into colder regions.
I believe its the latter as the constriction and rubbing of clothes damages the hair follicles hence most blokes have less hair on there rear calf's than else where caused by the continual rubbing of trousers/jeans/ etc
This should offer undisputable proof!
http://whom.co.uk/squelch/40years_tv.htm
we wore clothes to keep us warm, we actually were meant to walk around naked but it was too cold, we lost our hair and we put on more clothes, so here we are today
Scientist believe a retro virus was what made the gab between us an the other great apes. This may account for the loss of hair.
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