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Basically what I'm getting at is we evolved from apes but when did we realise that it's embarassing to be showing your dangly bits and cover up, and did this in turn remove the need for us to have hair all over our bodies?

2006-09-14 03:37:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Biology

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2006-09-14 10:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

We didn't evolve from apes by putting clothes on so we won't evolve back into apes by taking them off. In fact we didn't evolve from apes at all - but rather from a common ancester from which both apes and man evolved.

Man was around a long time before he first started wrapping himself in animal skins. This happened more because humans started to spread into colder areas of the World and we needed to keep warm than through embarrassment. It was much later that various taboos developed about exposing various parts of the anatomy and even today some primitive tribes wear nothing at all. The taboos were more about covering the reproductive organs except for those permitted to see (wife/husband) than any embarrassment as such. Embarrassment at such things is a very recent development - and still not universal... the Romans had communal toilets and even today public male urinals are common.

2006-09-14 03:39:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Um, No!

Firstly - and I'm not just being pedantic, this is a common misunderstanding - we did not evolve from apes. We share a common ancestor with apes. The ape-like ancestor of humans was also the human-like ancestor of apes! So we can't 'evolve back' into apes.
We lost our fur long before we adapted clothing. Although it's only speculation, we probably lost our fur as an adaption to over-heating problems arising from a hunter-savaging life-style on the plains, then needed the behavioural/cultural adaptation of clothing when the climate changed or we migrated to northern latitudes.
I don't think embarassment had anything to do with it - nice thought, though!

2006-09-14 03:44:13 · answer #3 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1 0

Your question is based on 2 misconceptions:

1 - that evolution has a 'direction'. A species can't evolve 'backwards' Evolution is the result of environmental effects, not the other way around

2 - Humans didn't evolve FROM apes. Apes and humans have a common ancestor.

As far as body hair (or lack of it compared to other bipeds), the wearing opf clothes is not what directly led to the evolution of less hair in hominids. The hot, dry climate of the equatorial region (where hominids arose) allowed those pre-humans to get away with having less hair.

Humans moved away from the equator and were able to survive cold because they figured out how to put coverings on.

2006-09-14 03:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by weaponsofmass_deception 1 · 0 0

Evolution is a forward genetic happening. Regression is backwards. As the great apes came before man in the evolutionary tree, it is not possible to 'evolve back into apes'

If climatic change or other factor caused an evolutionary change in man, that caused the growth of extra hair, long arms or other ape-like characteristics, these decendants would still be an evolution of man and our genetic code.

2006-09-14 03:52:47 · answer #5 · answered by devils.shed 2 · 0 0

That's a bit ike saying that the only thing that distinguishes us from apes is clothing.

I don't think that if we went around naked our brain capacity would diminish too. I suppose it's possible that we would evolve into hairy beasts but we would not devolve back to previous species. We would evolve into something else.

2006-09-14 03:49:47 · answer #6 · answered by Dazza 4 · 0 0

No... we never evolved from apes @ the 1st place... y should we transform 2 them @ the end... & what has clothes 2 do with a biological matter... what a silly question!

2006-09-14 03:46:42 · answer #7 · answered by Jafar B 3 · 0 1

What makes you think that apes did not evolve from humans?

2006-09-14 03:46:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Okay, first of all we never were apes. Second, there are way too many ugly people to make it worth seeing the hot people.

2006-09-14 03:47:16 · answer #9 · answered by shominyyuspa 5 · 0 0

I think that staying naked all of the time is good and proper just go to the website below

2006-09-14 03:46:42 · answer #10 · answered by John Steigns 1 · 0 0

Only if you can scratch the bottom of your feet with out bending down

2006-09-14 03:47:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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