Sunday, August 22, 2010
4 comments:
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JMcD said...
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"That Darn Cat!"
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8/22/10, 6:18 PM
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clem said...
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It's a question that always puzzled me. "Why did we lose our body hair?"
An anthropology professor of mine explained it. After our ancestors came down out of the trees, they developed a new form of hunting.
Every other species would give chase, and if they didn't catch their prey right away, they'd stop and say, "There's more where that came from".
Early humans hunted with persistence. They would keep chasing their prey until it dropped from exhaustion. To do that, the humans needed a more efficient cooling system: sweat. All the animals they chased had fur and vented their heat through their respiratory system. Humans lost their hair and could lose heat via evaporation.
So if the world ever goes kablooey and you need to hunt prey with a pointy stick, just remember that you can outlast them. -
8/22/10, 8:55 PM
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DougM said...
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Outlast em?
Wellp, I plan to walk casually over to the nearest hyena pack and chow down on the carcasses of all the hyenas who laughed themselves to death at the sight of my hundred-yards-and-a-heart-attack physique. -
8/22/10, 9:55 PM
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idahohunter said...
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Doug that is some funny shit!
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8/23/10, 11:12 PM
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