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[usayit]

Why are humans the only animal on the planet that grows hair only their head? Even better... All animals have fur or hair that slow down/stop once they get a certain length. Why can humans grow and grow and grow hair to lengths that absolutely seem to have zero purpose?

Most animals within a genus has several species. Please explain why Humans are the only extant specie of the Homo Genus?


WTH are people obsessed with Snooki?

 

[Josh66]

I thought anti-mattter meant matter which the electronics were + and protons -. If in contact with matter will cancel.

Many suggest that Gravity isn't even a force and that's were I'm biased towards at the moment. Think of a flat soft surface. A heavy object on this surface changes the contour of the surface. Objects in the vicinity of this contoured surface have a tendency to fall towards the heavy object (gravity). If the heavy object is infinitely dense, it can potentially sink so far into the surface that it breaks through... suggesting a black hole. that's essentially all i know about it

The opposite of which would be something that pushes up on the surface, driving everything away from it.

Gravity is a side effect of mass. More mass = more gravity. Negative mass should produce negative gravity.

Antimatter is basically negative mass, is it not?

OK, maybe not...

Negative mass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A lot of that goes over my head... BUT, I think negative mass = negative gravity. Whatever negative mass is...

 

[Josh66]

Why are humans the only animal on the planet that grows hair only their head? Even better... All animals have fur or hair that slow down/stop once they get a certain length. Why can humans grow and grow and grow hair to lengths that absolutely seem to have zero purpose?

Most animals within a genus has several species. Please explain why Humans are the only extant specie of the Homo Genus?


WTH are people obsessed with Snooki?

How many people do you know that have not cut their hair in over 20 years?

After it gets to your ass (roughly), it falls off, stops growing, gets too frayed - whatever. The point is, it will never get much longer than your ass.


Grow hair only on you head? I have hair on most of my body... Granted, none of it is as long as that on my head, but it's still there...

I saw a guy at the pool once that (no kidding) looked like an ape. The only skin you could see on his entire body was his face, palms, and the bottom of his feet. It was kinda freaky. I'll never forget that day.

...I don't know what Snooki is.

 

[Josh66]

Also - I think evolution can happen a lot faster than some people would like to believe.

I'm no anthropologist, but I think the time we stopped having hairy bodies and the time we started wearing clothing is probably pretty close.

With clothing, there is no need for a hairy body.

 

[Buckster]

Why are humans the only animal on the planet that grows hair only their head?

Because when that genetic mutation occurred, it didn't kill us off - we were smart enough to cover ourselves with the skins of other animals to compensate.

Even better... All animals have fur or hair that slow down/stop once they get a certain length. Why can humans grow and grow and grow hair to lengths that absolutely seem to have zero purpose?

It's for mating - chicks with long hair look hot. :thumbup:

Most animals within a genus has several species. Please explain why Humans are the only extant specie of the Homo Genus?

Luck of the draw. Just as well anyway; With our herd mentality combined with massive egos and self-centeredness, homo sapien can hardly deal with slightly different colored or physically built people in a rational manner. If there were any that were even stranger, we'd no doubt kill them off just for GP

Hey! Maybe that's what happened to them!

WTH are people obsessed with Snooki?

Same reason they were obsessed with disco - most are inherently shallow and mindless drones. Plus, she has big boobs, causing primordial urges buried deep in the ancient parts of our brains.

 

[Buckster]

I thought anti-mattter meant matter which the electronics were + and protons -. If in contact with matter will cancel.

Many suggest that Gravity isn't even a force and that's were I'm biased towards at the moment. Think of a flat soft surface. A heavy object on this surface changes the contour of the surface. Objects in the vicinity of this contoured surface have a tendency to fall towards the heavy object (gravity). If the heavy object is infinitely dense, it can potentially sink so far into the surface that it breaks through... suggesting a black hole. that's essentially all i know about it

The opposite of which would be something that pushes up on the surface, driving everything away from it.

That's the only clue I needed to figure it out.

The opposite of gravity is - - - my third wife!

 

[Josh66]

Why are humans the only animal on the planet that grows hair only their head?

Because when that genetic mutation occurred, it didn't kill us off - we were smart enough to cover ourselves with the skins of other animals to compensate.

I, personally, think it more likely happened the other way around.

The hair probably came off when we started to cover ourselves in animal skins.

Friction from the clothing wearing the hair off, added warmth making it less of a real need, etc...

A (relatively) hairless body is likely a result of not needing the hair - clothing.

 

[Buckster]

Why are humans the only animal on the planet that grows hair only their head?

Because when that genetic mutation occurred, it didn't kill us off - we were smart enough to cover ourselves with the skins of other animals to compensate.

I, personally, think it more likely happened the other way around.

The hair probably came off when we started to cover ourselves in animal skins.

Friction from the clothing wearing the hair off, added warmth making it less of a real need, etc...

A (relatively) hairless body is likely a result of not needing the hair - clothing.

From what I've read about evolution, that puts the cart before the horse.

One experiment that was performed (and I'm sure there have been many, but I remember this one): You can shave generations and generations and generations of mice, keeping them all in an environment where they'll never miss that hair, yet you don't start getting bald mice eventually.

Genetic mutation doesn't occur because of outside forces like that. It occurs or doesn't no matter what in some individuals or even in large groups, and that turns out to be beneficial, non-beneficial, or of no consequence.

If we weren't smart enough to make coverings and take shelter, it might have died out with the individuals or groups who first exhibited the trait.

 

[Josh66]

Hmmm... I guess I can see that. Some things I've read suggest the opposite of that, but I guess there is no real authority.

 

[Infidel]

If we weren't smart enough to make coverings and take shelter, it might have died out with the individuals or groups who first exhibited the trait.

Not only was is not a disadvantage, hairlessness may have been advantageous (mating attractiveness-wise)...otherwise, there would still be a lot of super hairy people wandering around.

Tangent: I remember reading about a super car that could generate down-force that exceeded its weight, at something less than its top speed. Hell, just read on wiki that F1 cars can achieve this from 78-81 mph, and achieve 2x mass down-force at 118 mph. That's basically equal to the weight of the car sitting on the track (top side up) at 0 mph. This theoretically means that it could be driven upside down on an appropriately constructed track, no? Feel free to discuss (or not).

 

[usayit]

I agree.... yes the car can theoretically drive upside down as long as the forces "sucking" it to the surface are greater than the forces of gravity. Seems totally plausible just as long as the car can continue without interruption.


btw.. I'm liking all the explanations in regards to humanoids that I posted! VERY interesting thoughts.


How the world did evolution end up with the likes of the platypus? One weird mammal... poisonous too!



Wisdom or Intelligence... Which is more important for the humanity?

 

[DennyCrane]

Both in equal doses. Sheer intelligence without wisdom could lead you down the road to politician.

 

[table1349]

I agree.... yes the car can theoretically drive upside down as long as the forces "sucking" it to the surface are greater than the forces of gravity. Seems totally plausible just as long as the car can continue without interruption.


btw.. I'm liking all the explanations in regards to humanoids that I posted! VERY interesting thoughts.


How the world did evolution end up with the likes of the platypus? One weird mammal... poisonous too!



Wisdom or Intelligence... Which is more important for the humanity?

Both in equal doses. Sheer intelligence without wisdom could lead you down the road to politician.

Neither, basic inborn common sense. Wisdom can be acquired, but a person either possess or does not possess common sense. The intelligent man gains wisdom faster than the man of lesser intelligence. Neither can gain however common sense.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
-Tom Sawyer Abroad


P.S. The answer tot he monkey post is.................................................................................wait for it..................................................................................NEVER. Monkeys don't have wooden legs. :lmao:

 

[Josh66]

You know, here is something I've wondered about, and physicists (or whatever) have a hard time explaining...

Why aren't memories passed down?

Elephants pass their memories down... From what I've read, the 'science community' can't figure out why we don't as well...

 

[table1349]

I'm not convinced that elephants pass down memories. I suspect that they have a very innate natural instinct. Just as migratory birds know when to fly north or south depending on the season as well as returning to the same location. Just my opinion though.

As man gained in intelligence he lost not only his much stronger senses of smell and hearing, but I suspect we also lost a lot of our inborn instincts necessary to survive.