9th December 2005, 1:19 AM
One thing that seriously freaks me out is when evolution gets in to the idea of camoflage. How on God's green Earth does a cricket TRY to look like a leaf? There is a bug called a walking stick, it looks like.... a walking stick. Now, neither mutation nor evolution gives us a clue why this has happened. There are insects that look exactly like the particular leaves that grow in that particular region and will even change color depending on the season..... wtf?
There are also arthopods (and other species) today that attach bits of foilage to itself to blend in to its environment. But how would the body know to make itself look like these particular forms of foilage? Could this mean that the principals of evolution could possibly dictate that just by doing something over and over for a few hundred thousand generations will make it more permanent?
Look at humans, in comparison to other primates we're basicaly bald except for the headm, under the arms, and sexual organs. We have a thick coat of hair on our faces (this might be a throwback to the genes that were formed during the ice ages) but why no where else? Could it possibly be that the sun... no, apes in Africa have black skin and coarse hair all over their body to protect from insects. What about the cold of the ice ages? No again, there are many furry animals in cy regions, in fact in icy regions the more fur the better... which might hold a clue.
In afirca, most people outside the cities who live in tribes in a more natural setting wear very little clothes because its fucking hot. But when the ice age hit, and more than 90% of all life on earth died out, man tried to survive it... by wearing huge animal skins to cover his body. Now, we're basically looking at a total world-wide population of less than 20,000 people on earth during the ice ages, that's the entire population of EARTH as far as humans are considered. And all of those people would wear animal skins, and we did so for thousands of years.
So is it possible that the reason we're hairless is because of clothes!? It makes alot of sense that nature sees an animal that wears the skins of other animals to keep warm, so it detracts the amount of body hair on the animal as it is no longer needed.
Now... the question is..... how is removing body hair a good thing? :D Removing it would mean that there is now more resources for the body to pull from, so where did it go? Wouldn't nature let us keep our hair even though we're piling on animal skins to be even more warm? Our testicles have to be at something like 93 degrees (which is why they hang outside th body) or else the sperm will die. So could it be that as we're wearing animal skins huddled around a fire that we were getting TOO hot? So nature steps in and removes our body hair to bring our temprature down?
Just like the arthopods wearing foilage that eventually become foilage-like in their appearance, shouldn't we have become even more hairy though?
Earlier i said that apes in africa have long coarse hair so that they're not overcome by insects and mites. Well, in an ice age, there are no insects or mites, so maybe we simply lost the hair because of a lack of use, and because we wore the skins nature didn't see us needing the use of hair again... except on our heads and sexual organs and.... arm pits. Oh great, now where's the logic there?
Head - To protect the brain from extreme tempratures?
sexual organs - same thing? It would also keep bugs and mites away from our highly infectious membranes.
arm pits - .....yeah, I got nothin.
There's nothing there to protect other than skin so bugs wouldn't be a hassle for us there, why the arm pits and not the feet? No logic. So maybe it was temprature.... but to protect what? we do have special pheramone ducts under our arms, but how does having hair there make any logical connection? Pheramone glands aren't effected by temperature, well, the more sweat the more pheramone, so there is an effect. So maybe that's it... the reason we have hair there is to keep our underarms warmer so that the pheramones are easily produced through the sweat glands... that's th best I can figure out.
Okay, so we sorta gave logical reasonings to the head, sexual organs and arm pits.
We still have hair folicels all over our bodies, but the hairs are fine and short, often invisible until closer examination, so we know the hair used to be there. I'm willing to bet it's a combo of lack of need and human ingenuity of wearing the skins to replace what would have become a need.
.... but it doesn't make any sense why arthopods and other species evolve in to plant-bodies......
There's a special kind of octopus called a Lying Octopus or something like that who changes his color, design of color, texture of skin and body movement to look like other sea creatures. It swims like a flounder or floats out of a cave to look like a sea snake or eel, all kinds of cool shit. And thi makes sense because it has special muscles and cells it can control to emulate the designs and textures. Just like felxing a muscle, except it makes your skin a different texture or changes the designs. But its still an octopus, when it's not trying to look like something else, it looks like an octopus. It litteraly looks at the rock and flexes its muscles until it resembls a rock.... so why do we have an animal that looks exactly like a small branch in winter with dead leaves on it!?!?! It even knows how to ACT like a plant, swaying in breezes that it actually controls just to trick any predators or prey around it and the look of the plant is actually its skeleton...... fucking weird.
There are also arthopods (and other species) today that attach bits of foilage to itself to blend in to its environment. But how would the body know to make itself look like these particular forms of foilage? Could this mean that the principals of evolution could possibly dictate that just by doing something over and over for a few hundred thousand generations will make it more permanent?
Look at humans, in comparison to other primates we're basicaly bald except for the headm, under the arms, and sexual organs. We have a thick coat of hair on our faces (this might be a throwback to the genes that were formed during the ice ages) but why no where else? Could it possibly be that the sun... no, apes in Africa have black skin and coarse hair all over their body to protect from insects. What about the cold of the ice ages? No again, there are many furry animals in cy regions, in fact in icy regions the more fur the better... which might hold a clue.
In afirca, most people outside the cities who live in tribes in a more natural setting wear very little clothes because its fucking hot. But when the ice age hit, and more than 90% of all life on earth died out, man tried to survive it... by wearing huge animal skins to cover his body. Now, we're basically looking at a total world-wide population of less than 20,000 people on earth during the ice ages, that's the entire population of EARTH as far as humans are considered. And all of those people would wear animal skins, and we did so for thousands of years.
So is it possible that the reason we're hairless is because of clothes!? It makes alot of sense that nature sees an animal that wears the skins of other animals to keep warm, so it detracts the amount of body hair on the animal as it is no longer needed.
Now... the question is..... how is removing body hair a good thing? :D Removing it would mean that there is now more resources for the body to pull from, so where did it go? Wouldn't nature let us keep our hair even though we're piling on animal skins to be even more warm? Our testicles have to be at something like 93 degrees (which is why they hang outside th body) or else the sperm will die. So could it be that as we're wearing animal skins huddled around a fire that we were getting TOO hot? So nature steps in and removes our body hair to bring our temprature down?
Just like the arthopods wearing foilage that eventually become foilage-like in their appearance, shouldn't we have become even more hairy though?
Earlier i said that apes in africa have long coarse hair so that they're not overcome by insects and mites. Well, in an ice age, there are no insects or mites, so maybe we simply lost the hair because of a lack of use, and because we wore the skins nature didn't see us needing the use of hair again... except on our heads and sexual organs and.... arm pits. Oh great, now where's the logic there?
Head - To protect the brain from extreme tempratures?
sexual organs - same thing? It would also keep bugs and mites away from our highly infectious membranes.
arm pits - .....yeah, I got nothin.
There's nothing there to protect other than skin so bugs wouldn't be a hassle for us there, why the arm pits and not the feet? No logic. So maybe it was temprature.... but to protect what? we do have special pheramone ducts under our arms, but how does having hair there make any logical connection? Pheramone glands aren't effected by temperature, well, the more sweat the more pheramone, so there is an effect. So maybe that's it... the reason we have hair there is to keep our underarms warmer so that the pheramones are easily produced through the sweat glands... that's th best I can figure out.
Okay, so we sorta gave logical reasonings to the head, sexual organs and arm pits.
We still have hair folicels all over our bodies, but the hairs are fine and short, often invisible until closer examination, so we know the hair used to be there. I'm willing to bet it's a combo of lack of need and human ingenuity of wearing the skins to replace what would have become a need.
.... but it doesn't make any sense why arthopods and other species evolve in to plant-bodies......
There's a special kind of octopus called a Lying Octopus or something like that who changes his color, design of color, texture of skin and body movement to look like other sea creatures. It swims like a flounder or floats out of a cave to look like a sea snake or eel, all kinds of cool shit. And thi makes sense because it has special muscles and cells it can control to emulate the designs and textures. Just like felxing a muscle, except it makes your skin a different texture or changes the designs. But its still an octopus, when it's not trying to look like something else, it looks like an octopus. It litteraly looks at the rock and flexes its muscles until it resembls a rock.... so why do we have an animal that looks exactly like a small branch in winter with dead leaves on it!?!?! It even knows how to ACT like a plant, swaying in breezes that it actually controls just to trick any predators or prey around it and the look of the plant is actually its skeleton...... fucking weird.