Re: AAT Theory

Phillip Bigelow (n8010095@cc.wwu.edu)
29 Sep 1995 14:03:21 -0700

sstinson@uoguelph.ca (Sean Stinson) writes:

>Just a small note here:
> Last time I checked ALL olympic swimmers shave their legs and
>body. Then they put rubber swimming caps on their heads to cover the
>hair on their heads. It seems to me that if you want to know about moving
>quickly through the water you should ask an olympic swimmer about it.

It should also be pointed out that olympic swimmers remove their growth of
body hair because they have to remove it. If evolution had optimized humans
for low-drag swimming, all those olympic-class swimmers wouldn't have to
break-out the Burma Shave in the first place.