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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 51 points 8 months ago (2 children)

...or maybe because a) you christians told us it was shameful, or b) it gets really fucking cold outside of Africa*.

^*where our species originally came from^

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sure, clothes are tools, but where does shame over nudity come from? Like, a hammer is a tool, but I'm not embarrassed about being caught in public without my hanmer.

[–] Halasham@dormi.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These could come from selection pressure. In a survival scenario being caught in the rain while nude can lead to death. Minor cuts can become infected and do the same. Both can be mitigated by covering yourself. How much you should cover is situational but wholly forgoing clothes when survival isn't effectively guaranteed isn't a smart move.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But how did it get to be so universal, and for so long? As far as I know, virtually every culture has has some kind of clothing, particularly around the genitals of all things, pretty much forever.

[–] Halasham@dormi.zone 4 points 8 months ago

To clarify: I'm hypothesizing, I do not know for certain this is how it happened. As for how: There's two ways that could've happened, #1 it developed in an ancestral population to all living groups and they took the trait with them, or #2 the fact Humans are so bad at dealing with exposure imposed this trait on all of us Convergent Evolution style.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You don't speak for me.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not only is it colder outside of Africa but it's colder everywhere, than it was when humans first evolved.

The claim swings from glacial, to interglacial, to temperate. Humans evolved in a temperate period, but since then we've had an Ice Age (It was kind of a big thing), and now we are in an interglacial period