PBS Eons: How Humans Lost Their Fur

 

There’s a new episode of PBS Eons on Youtube.  This one is about humans and how we lost our fur.

We’re the only primate without a coat of thick fur. It turns out that this small change in our appearance has had huge consequences for our ability to regulate our body temperature, and ultimately, it helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage.

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