Barbery Apes

[pseudomonas]

Is there any other mammal that has as enthusiastically stupid a distribution of hair as humans? Almost bald all over with a daft patch or two on top that can approach half the total body length seems pretty crazy to me. I guess a horse's tail is nearly as silly, but I think the humans still win that one.

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[ptc24]

Ah, Elaine Morgan. I got The Scars of Evolution out of the library once, when I was younger. It was a good read; I was greatly disappointed when later on when I read what people had to say about her work. It felt a lot like a beautiful idea being slain by a lot of ugly facts, although the other impression that I got was that I'd have to study an awful lot of science to work out for sure who was right or not, and seeing as I didn't have the time I'd just have to trust institutional science over iconoclastic outsiders who write books.

Part of me feels like it needs to take a shower after writing that.