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scofield asks:

This is my first post, so let me know how I do!

I think you did quite well. Welcome to the 'jungle'.

A more recent theory (Link posted in next post) is that we lost our hair to help fight bugs. Lice and other biting insects can be a major problem, which is why our still-hairy primate cousins place so much importance on social grooming. Indeed, it was reported this week that some monkeys actually trade grooming for sex!!

That's never worked for me. I've offered to bite a lot of women's toe nails for them for some sex but, so far, none of them has taken me up on it.

rez: I'm beginning to see a pattern in your posts. It appears that you never have anything (either original or borrowed) to add to a thread. All I ever see you do is ad hominem attacks against character or cheerleader-type encouragement of others. Don't you have anything of substance to ever add?

Your post consisted primarily of argument ad hominem and straw person fallacy. You threw out two words, "Mendel genetics", which any pea-brain could mention and one totally ridiculous statement, "Genes...are controlled by quantum physics and reproduction". Other than one other eye-opening revelation (read that as sarcasm), " Genetics is a rather complicated topic", your post is strawman, strawman, strawman. Your advice to me to obtain "a basic education in biology first" bounces off of me and sticks all over you like glue.

It's okay, though...maybe you can do better next time.

Also, we developed from monkeys supposedly in Africa, so it would be very helpful to get rid off all that hair, and I'm pretty sure bugs are also a big problem around there.

Does this mean that monkeys are becoming less haity, then? If not, why not?

Perhaps evolution did away with many benefital traits so that we could develope the brain in a relatively moderate time, and not have to eat an elephant a day.

Or perhaps modern man has changed very little from the very first man. The basic laws governing all life on our planet suggests that our brain capacity is diminishing and the evidence tends to support this.

On a personal level, I felt smarter yesterday than I do today. In fact, my cognitive abilities seem to be in an inexorable decline...what were we talking about?