Less hair makes cold easier to feel. Why didn’t that wipe humans out?
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Answer: Behavior helped compensate
Behavior helped compensate ✓ — Correct! Early humans could offset some of the cost through behavior and tools, using shade, fire, shelter, grouping, and better timing of activity.
Humans stopped feeling cold — Wrong. Humans still feel cold. The key is that behavior can reduce the cost of being less furry.
Skin made extra heat — Wrong. Skin helps regulate heat, but it is not a special new heat-making engine that replaced body hair.
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- If clothing began as a tool, why is nudity often treated as inappropriate?
- What problem did early clothing most likely solve first?
- Why didn’t humans just grow thick fur back instead of making clothes?
- If less hair helped, why didn’t humans become fully hairless?
- Why do humans have much less body hair than most mammals?