Goodhart, C. B. (1996). When, where, and why did humans lose their fur?. Biologist 43 (2). Vol 43(2), pp. 78-80.
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When, where, and why did humans lose their fur? | |||
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Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Biologist 43 (2) | |||
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Biologist | |||
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43 (2) | |||
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78 - 80 | |||
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Speculates that modern humans may have lost their fur through sexual selection ie, that males preferred naked to hairy females. Earlier hominids including Homo erectus, archaic Homo sapiens, and Neanderthalers (who lived around the Pleistocene ice cap) would have retained their furry coats, leaving human nakedness to evolve late, perhaps in a small population living at a high latitude in Europe or Asia during the last Interglacial period (c 100,000~BP). This population would have been pale-skinned since no solar protection afforded by pigmentation would have been necessary due to the high latitude, while the need for Vitamin D would have favoured this development. With the advance of the last Ice Age, their descendants may then have moved south where they acquired pigmented skins and reduced beards and head hair. Although populations of still furry archaic H sapiens and even H erectus may have continued to live on for a time in the Tropics (until they became extinct), the naked H sapiens may have been unable to interbreed with them following a period of genetic isolation in the north. Also suggests that the cultural revolution of the later Palaeolithic may have been due, in part, to biological changes in human intelligence. | |||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
1996 | |||
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20 Jan 2002 |
