Don't get it (Re: Ape to Man - where did the hair go?)

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It's like you guys are thinking totally backwards on this. How do you guys come up with this stuff?

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I often wonder the same thing.

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Fortunately for all of you, you haven't seen my butt. If I could knit, I could make a sweater for a chihuahua from the shearings I could harvest back there.
And then, I had six wisdom teeth, like, say, a chimpanzee does......

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Unlike you, my body is almost as bare as my computer monitor... or Ned's headBut seriously, 6 wisdom teeth? Are you some kind of mutant?

When more than one valued members on this board tell you that you are full of sh**, it is time for you to take a step back and evaluate yourself rather than keep assuming that you are the almighty and everyone else is wrong.If you want some extreme examples of when people like you are not taken seriously, look for posts made by desdamona.

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The Laminator

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You seem to be missing the point that early humans did not rely solely on running their prey to exhaustion. Having able to walk upright and gaining the opposable thumb makes us perfect as gatherers. Again, do not try to compare us with the lion or the tiger. Early humans probably did not run their preys to exhaustion. They probably started out as gatherers and scavengers. Then, having the ability to communicate gave humans the advantage of group work to hunt animal. Loudmouth already answered this issue with the following on post 58.

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Increased melanin protects us from harmful UV rays in absence of fur. Camels actually use their fur to insulate themselves against the heat, and they are able to withstand increases in body temp unlike humans (at least this is what I remember from my mammalian physiology course 10 years ago). Camels then release the heat during the night. If I remember right, if you shave a camel they will die of heat exposure during the day due to the lack of insulation, much like ice in a cooler will last longer than ice out in the open.

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Humans use a different technique, using evaporative cooling instead of releasing the heat at night. Other animals are less active and therefore are able to cope with the heat by resting in the shade or limiting their exposure to the sun (such as lions and other predators). Humans actively hunt during the time other predators are resting, and use a technique somewhat like wolves in North America. They wear their prey down instead of ambushing them or running them down. Increased evaporative cooling due to thinner hair makes sense in this scenario.

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I would like to add that many of the characteristics you see today in humans, and some are even called disadvantages, are due to mutations that were not disadvantagous enough to not allow the individuals to reproduce. The various genetic diseases you see today are due to errors in meiosis in the reproductive process. Some, such as hemophilia, are very recent mutations, recent enough that already advances in medicine and such have allowed these individuals to survive.Again, you fail to put into account our ability to think as an advantage over other animal. Obviously, these people have what they need right there in front of them to survive. Why should they be anything else if all they need to survive are what they have now? pbaylis, please.

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The Laminator

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When I was in social studies in high school, we learned about a tribe in nowadays Mexico that, through tradition, require all the men to be able to, or at least try their best, chase certain animal until the animal are exhausted.

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The Laminator

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Do us all a favor and study some more on this topic before you make such a statement. Just because you haven't been able to absorb information that Froggy and Danny presented doesn't mean that they don't make sense at all.So far, they have answered every question you posted on the subject. Now, you simply turned around and said they haven't said anything useful. You've just proven to us that you been approaching this with the "la la la I can't hear you" attitude all along.Either start posting specific questions and explain to us why you don't think our answers are valid or go away.

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The Laminator

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Just because you're a gentleman doesn't mean you are intelligent. I judge people on their reading comprehension and how ready they are to new ideas. Just read more of Froggy's posts and compare those to pbaylis'. Anyone with a decent reading comprehension skill would notice that the frog is far better at presenting his argument than pbaylis.

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The Laminator

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Good call Loudmouth. I'll keep that in mind.

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The Laminator

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That cat looks somewhat like a rat. Is it possible that the cats and the rats are finally beginning to agree to live in peace? In some past human traditions, in order to end a bloody war, each side would marry their prince and princess as a symbol of peace. The mother of that cat probably slept with a male rat

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