Naked Apes

Nakedness

• "Naked Apes?", Gene Expression blog entry, March 31, 2006
• Mark Pagel and Walter Bodmer, "A naked ape would have fewer parasites", The Royal Society, 9 June 2003.
• Arthur H. Neufeld, Glenn C. Conroy, "Human Head Hair Is Not Fur", Evolutionary Anthropology, 2004.
• Nina G. Jablonski "The Evolution of Human Skin and Skin Color" Annual Review of Anthropology June 21, 2004.
• Geoffrey Redmond, "Hormones and Unwanted Hair", Hormone Center of New York, 2006

-Evidence against sexual selection of hairlessness

• What your hair says about you

-Evidence against sexual selection of hairlessness

• "The Naked Truth? Lice hint at a recent origin of clothing", by John Travis, Aug, 2003; Vol. 164, No. 8 , p. 118

-Origin of clothing 30k-114k years ago based on the evolutionary history of body lice

Human Origins

• Ian Tattersall Interview

Fire

• Richard G. Klein, "Archeology and the evolution of human behavior", Evolutionary Anthropology, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages: 17-36.

-p.17 human paleontologists unflinchingly attribute major morphological changes or differences to natural selection, mutation, gene drift, or gene flow. Paleolithic archeologists in contrast tend to ascribe major behavioral changes to newly developed cultural strategies or to population growth, even when the changes coincide with conspicuous morphological changes.

• Thomas Plummer, "Flaked stones and old bones: Biological and cultural evolution at the dawn of technology" American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Volume 125, Issue S39, 2004, Pages: 118-164]