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Originally posted by schrafinator:
Humans have "goose bumps", which try to fluff up our hair so we can stay warmer...except that we don't have hair all over our bodies anymore.
The goose bump response to feeling chilled is a useless, left over response from our primate past.
Actually we still have hair all over our bodies, it is just that it is much finer then it had once been. BTW, some of us (me) are still quite hairy. I guess that I'm a throwback.