Re: Why is Homo sapiens hairless?

Rohinton Collins (rohinton@collins.prestel.co.uk)
29 Oct 1996 17:12:25 GMT

> The !Kung San of the Kalahari are even more hairless than you, yet have
> never been partial to wearing clothes. Your logic apparently applies only

> in a Lamarkian world.
>
> Rajindra Maraj
> b068755c@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us

How insulting! Modern humans have colonised almost every habitat on the
earth, but all have remained (largely) hairless. What makes you think that
the !Kung San are representative of early moderns? Because this is what you
imply.

Regards,

Roh