[language] : [Fwd: Creative Search For Naked Truth]]

[H.M. Hubey]

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Subject: [Nostratic-L] Re: [Fwd: Creative Search For Naked Truth]
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:07:47 +0000
From: Andy Howey <andyandmae_howey at sbcglobal.net>
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To: Nostratic-L at yahoogroups.com



This is off-topic.

--- In Nostratic-L at yahoogroups.com, "H.M. Hubey" <HubeyH at M...> wrote:
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 > Subject: [evol-psych] Creative Search For Naked Truth
 > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:02:06 +0100
 > From: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford at s...>
 > Reply-To: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford at s...>
 > Organization: http://human-nature.com
 > To: evolutionary-psychology at yahoogroups.com
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 > Creative Search For Naked Truth
 > Study Uses Lice DNA to Find When Clothing First Appeared
 > By Rick Weiss
 > Washington Post Staff Writer
 > Tuesday, August 19, 2003; Page A01
 >
 > In a creative use of insect genetics to solve an enduring mystery
of human
 > evolution, scientists studying the DNA of lice have concluded that
early humans
 > may have started wearing clothes just a few tens of thousands of
years ago,
 > more recently than many had presumed.
 >
 > The new work -- based on subtle genetic differences between human
body lice,
 > which depend on clothing for their survival, and human head lice,
which do
 > not -- suggests that early humans may have lived in Europe for tens
of
 > thousands of years after leaving Africa before availing themselves
of clothes.
 >
 > Among the work's controversial implications: Early humans such as
 > Neanderthals -- who lived from about 150,000 years ago until 30,000
years ago
 > and who are typically depicted as hairless and clad in furs -- may
in fact have
 > been quite furry until surprisingly late in their evolution.
 >
 > "If you look at how Neanderthals are routinely depicted in books
and museums,
 > people have just thought they must have had clothing to protect
against cold
 > weather," said study leader Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck
Institute for
 > Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "But if you
ask, 'What's the
 > evidence?' it's just not compelling that they had clothes. Perhaps
they had
 > more body hair than we thought."
 >
 > The transition from hairy to hairless, and the related advance from
naked to
 > clothed, were seminal events in human biological and cultural
evolution. But
 > scientists know little about the timing of either.
 >
 > Full text
 > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11847-2003Aug18.html
 >
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 > Evolutionary Psychology http://human-nature.com/ep
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 > Mark Hubey
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