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Why aren’t humans covered in hair like other primates are? (continued)

Paul Seedhouse
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

In his answer to this question, Anthony Woodward dismisses the idea that hairlessness enabled hominins to hunt down animals on the savannah without overheating, but he makes the mistake of assuming that speed is the only effective hunting strategy available. All successful predators play to their evolutionary advantages, and hairlessness in humans enabled persistence or endurance hunting on the savannah.

David Attenborough suggests that this may be the most ancient human hunting strategy and that it could have been conducted even before weapons…