The Story of Human Hair
Origin Stories
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Analyzing Human Evolution and the Role of Hair and Skin
This chapter delves into the process of scientifically theorizing human evolution and using fossil evidence to track the development of traits such as upright posture, bipedalism, and brain size. It tackles the question of why human brains took so long to reach modern size, discussing the challenges of tracing the evolution of hair and skin through fossils and the role of genetics and testable hypotheses in understanding these changes.
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