Have we evolved in a way that makes human unable to tolerate cold weather?

Question

My house is over 200 years old and I live in a region that has sub zero winters with snow that can collect up to 8’. I wonder how the people who built and lived in this house survived without foreign or local fuel. Why has fuel become a life or death necessity?
Have we evolved somehow that we cannot tolerate cold weather like our ancestors did and like animals do now (birds, farm and forest animals etc…)

Answer 1

From my experience I would say that there are several things that you are not taking into account. There are several human populations that have adapted to cold weather quite successfully. American Indian Eskimos are one group that shows several cold weather adaptations. (Short thick limbs and bodies for heat retention. Undescended testicles in males. Dentition is another related issue ) The Chinese are another, that have the epicanthal fold, which in effect gives them built in snow goggles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicanthal_fold

Another thing you may not be considering is the ingenuity of the people who lived in your house before you did. They likely survived on local fuel sources like firewood, which was probably abundant and renewable at the time. Do you burn wood today ? They also may have made deep feather beds, which they may not have gotten out of in the mornings until eleven o’clock, or later, on a cold day. They may have taken live embers and coals to bed with them in iron pots wrapped in towels to help keep themselves warm, which was a common practice predating the electric blanket. If you have pets and ever experience a very cold night without power you may develop an appreciation for the old expression, ‘A three dog night.’

Another thing that you may be overlooking is the survival rate of those days. Yes, a lot of people did die. People weren’t much, if any, tougher than they are today as a whole and may have been even less equipped for the day-to-day struggle for survival. A lot of them didn’t make it, or make it for very long. Remember that the life expectancy of an adult male was only 40 years up until not that long ago as far as human history is concerned

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Nope. The ability too tolerate extremes of weather rest solely within the individual. There are people that are very tolerate of cold, like the Inuit.

You see there is a problem with your question. You use the word "we". That includes all humans existing at the time you post your question.

All of us should choose our words more carefully. Particularly words like never, ever, forever, we, us, them, who and promise.

Answer 4

all they do was lot of excercise and organic food
+tension free living i mean not running after money etc
in this era of readymade we r really spoiling our life as we r moving more away from our mother nature

Answer 5

No , We can tolerate it if we have to , but we just don't want to.