Monday, January 26, 2015

Further Exporations into Yesterday's Evolution Question

   Ahh, yes, there is some answer to the question I laid out yesterday. Man lost his hairy covering because he came out of Africa, where it was so warm, no covering was needed. That's an answer, but I'm not sure it does the trick. For, at some stage, man spread to other parts of the earth, colder places. Why is it that at least some of those new climes did not prompt him to adapt again, regrow the hair? For these places were cold, and if adaptation was to be had, this is what was needed.
   Was it that he had already started wearing clothes? And took them with him to the new climates. What got him started wearing the clothes, then? If he lost his covering because he didn't need it, why would he start wearing clothes while still in an environment that didn't require it? Did he become concerned about his morals, and not want to be naked? Perhaps that might work as an answer. (If so, what an irony, for religion would be causing evolution. Such a thought.) Or, did he assume the clothes when he started moving to the new, colder locations? When I go outside on a cold winter day today, even dressed as warm as I can, I still get cold. I do doubt that back then, the primate was dressing warm enough that adapting to the environment would not have meant getting a hairy covering -- or a covering of some kind.

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