Sentences with phrase «human hairlessness»

In a new attempt to explain this loss of body hair I argue that human hairlessness had its origin in the ancestral mother - infant relationship.

Though various underground or aquatic mammals have also evolved hairlessness, human hairlessness is unique because it evolved to help our bodies stay cool.

His musings traverse a diverse range of subjects — from baboon sexual displays to human hairlessness to the evolution of language.

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In the new theory, hairlessness likely evolved much later, when humans began sharing shelter, Dunbar says, probably no more than a half - million years ago.

Some of the these essentially human features include hairlessness, bipedalism, subcutaneous fat, voluntary control of breathing, and a descended larynx, which makes speech possible.