• Miller@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Well exactly, because evolutionarily we do still have bodies that should be covered in fur, a lot of fur.

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      10 hours ago

      Nah man. “Evolutionarily” doesn’t give a fuck about anyone over 30 because you’ve already had enough kidlets and are about to die from a blood infection that took hold from a rotten tooth.

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        9 hours ago

        Evolution cares whether you can keep the kidlets safe until they themselves have kidlets tho. That should give you at least another 5 years before your spine self-destructs

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          3 hours ago

          Fair point. I don’t think that precludes some extra weight around the waist in your 30s though?

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      11 hours ago

      Nah. We lost fur hundreds of thousands of years ago and never needed it again to survive several ice ages. So I’d say we’ve definitely evolved past fur thanks to the ‘advanced’ tool usage of… clothing.

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        10 hours ago

        Hundreds of thousands of years is not much time in evolutionary terms and my point is the shape of our bodies has not really caught up with our loss of hair and particularly in age we can still look a little unaesthetic. We look exactly like what we are, an animal that is supposed to have fur that has been shorn.