But cleaning sessions are only long and focused as an ape’s body hair allows. [Related: Ancient Mesopotamian texts show when and why humans first kissed.] Grooming logically took less time and ...

we still have as many hairs on our bodies as one would expect to find on any ape of similar size, it’s just that today’s human body hair (at least for most of us) is remarkably fine.

Human body hair might seem to be useless on today's modern ... Humans appear relatively hairless compared with our ape relatives, but the density of hair follicles on our skin is actually the ...

we no longer needed body hair to protect us from solar radiation, though this does not account for the fact that the rest of the body of a naked ape is exposed to the sun even though the top of the ...

We actually have the same density of body hair as other apes of our size ... old hypothesis in a paper simply titled: “A naked ape has fewer parasites”. Early humans probably lived in large ...

The need to keep a cool head is why man became a naked ape according to scientists ... causing heat to be lost from the body in the process. Thick body hair would quickly become matted and so ...

Their conclusion is that humans have fine body hair to serve as an alarm system. Ms Dean and Dr Siva-Jothy were testing the idea that fine body hairs (known, technically, as vellus and terminal ...

BERLIN (AP) — German police say the grisly find of an ape’s hand and foot in a forest ... The cleanly severed hand and foot, complete with skin, hair and nails, were discovered about a week ...