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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Micele

Je had het dus zelfs over mensen die vóór de homo erectus geleefd hebben?

Dan hadden we wslk veel meer haren niet?

Het is merkwaardig, maar het "haar verlies" is precies een aanpassing aan de savanne:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...to-our-success

In the 1990s, Peter Wheeler of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK came up with a mathematical model showing how much excess heat hominins would need to lose in open habitats in order to function. If their brains got too hot, their thought processes would be impaired.

If the hominins were covered in hair, they could not have lost heat fast enough. Wheeler reasoned that two related changes happened that allowed our ancestors to keep cool.