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Question

.....our skin is not very warm or protective like animals fur coats..why would they get fur birthday suits....and we get a lesser inferior protective outfit?.......environmental influences are the same?.......it's like we were meant to wear clothing for some purpose....are you following me?.......

Answer 1

It&#039;s because the founder of the world was a Corporate American with future business interests at heart.

Answer 2

Apparently when humans started moving inside of structures (caves, stick houses, whatever) and also started wearing clothes (fur, fabric, etc) our bodies no longer needed hair all over them in order to keep our bodies warm.  That is why hair that is found on the body now are on areas that need it.  I would expect to see most body hair (except facial and head hair) to be gone in a few thousand, million, years or so.

Answer 3

Unlike of animals we adapt our environment to us instead of adapting to it.

Answer 4

i sort of get what your saying. It was  a genetic mutation because we no longer needed to have fur, we had fur coats

Answer 5

We have the same number of hair follicles as chimps.  Why do we have that fine hair and why does it erect when cold like it is trying to fluff fur up to better protect against cold (goose bumps).  We obviously had more hair before.  I think we lost hair when we started wearing cloths mostly because of  sexual selection and to reduce lice.  The cloths made the mechanical protection function less important as did the development of longer range weapons. The loss of hair for cooling is a seriously flawed theory.  You don&#039;t see Arabs going naked in desert to cool off.

Answer 6

Because, in Africa where we are thought to have evolved, fur isn&#039;t really a necessity. Would you walk around Nairobi in a fur coat? We are tropical creatures living outside of our natural habitat.

One theory of how we lost the fur is called the &#039;aquatic ape theory&#039;, and it suggests we spent a lot of our time wading and got a layer of fat, and got rid of the fur. Once you get bigger than a sea otter, fat is a much better insulator in the water. This must of happened after we split from the chimps, as black African skin is a mutation from a chimps pink skin, to protect us from sunburn when we went bald. Also, we can float in water and chimps can&#039;t.

Answer 7

We DID evolve from other animals.

Not all animals have fur.

Our ancestors had fur; now we don&#039;t (much, we do still have fur, just not the full-body,, thick, long fur of our ancestors).

We don&#039;t know why we lost most of our fur. The two hypotheses I know of are that, like whales, for instance, we spent a bunch of time in water at one point in our development. (Our body-fat, and infant&#039;s swimming instincts support this.)

Another is that once we started to supplement our fur with clothes, it became advantageous to lose our fur to keep down our parasite load.

Meant to?

No.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/bein...

is a source that mentions the two hypotheses.

Answer 8

Mammals are not the only animals, and not all mammals experienced the same environmental influences (marsupials, for example, or whales).  Maybe our outer protection is less because our brain power is more and makes up for it.  The same species of bird can evolve into two species by separation of a mountain range.  Marsupials evolved because of continental drift.  Antibiotic resistant germs have evolved because of antibiotic use.

We weren&#039;t meant to wear clothing, we just do if our climate dictates it.  If you go to warmer parts of the world, some cultures barely wear any clothes at all.

Answer 9

Humans have as many hairs as an ape, they are simply much finer.  Humans are evolved to be the ultimate radiators of heat.  We practiced what is called persistence hunting.  Our ancestors simply chased down animals that overheated.  Due to our skin having lots of sebaceous glands, and our upright stance, we can take the mid-day sun as we minimize exposure to ultraviolet and heat and maximize air cooling our sweating bodies.

Answer 10

The short answer to your question is, because humans were smart enough to wear animal skins and furs to keep warm.

It is a very common misconception that species evolve because they need to in order to adapt to their environment.  It shows a lack of understanding of how evolution works.  

Species do not choose to evolve in a way that&#039;s for their own good. The fossil record demonstrates that more than ninety nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. It is clear that most species do not evolve to fit their environment.  

From a biological viewpoint, when species evolve it is not a reaction to necessity, but rather that by chance the population contains variations with traits that favor their natural selection. In the case of humans and fur, natural selection selected humans who were smart enough to wear animal skins to keep warm.