Re: Sweating hominids


"Andrew Nowicki" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The patas monkey example (most-sweating non-human primate AFAWK) suggests
>> that nakedness has not much to do with sweating.

> This is a matter of physics. I already explained the patas case.

Ah? Care to explain it again?

> Nakedness is also good way to get rid of parasites.

In this case, all mammals had been naked.

> Andrew Nowicki wrote:

>>> seem to be an oxymoron for three reasons: 1. Early hominids lived in a
>>> mosaic habitat close to wet habitats, usually a gallery forest
>>> surrounded by dry bushland.

> Marc Verhaegen wrote:

>> This is about apiths. No indication they were naked or not.

> According to the The New York Times article that I quoted in this thread,
> hominids became naked long before they wore clothes. Nakedness is older
> than 1.2 million years. The first clothes were worn between 42,000 and
> 72,000 years ago -- about the same time the first humans migrated from
> Africa. We do not know if the apiths were naked and if they sweated, but
> we know that their postcranial anatomy was similar to our anatomy.

We know their anatomy was very different from ours, eg, much shorter legs,
inverted funnel-shaped thorax, broader pelvis, longer & more horizontal
femoral necks, etc.

> Look at the gastrocnemius muscles bulging in our calves. They are so
> massive that they severely impede our ability to run. No other animal has
> so prominent gastrocnemius muscles. It is obvious that these massive
> gastrocnemius muscles were used to help us haul heavy loads. When you
> combine the facts: nakedness, huge gastrocnemius muscles, sweating, and
> dexterous hands -- they fit like pieces of a puzzle. The apiths sweated
> because they hauled heavy loads.

:-D

--Marc


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