I wonder if there is a measurable correlation between things like 'amount of time spent outdoors' and 'amount of body hair'... Could such an effect actually happen in humans as well?
To actually measure causation rather than correlation, though, you'd need a much more intensive experiment tracking a large number of individuals both before and after changing their lifestyle to either be less outdoors or more outdoors.
Esta entrada fue editada (sábado, 29 de agosto de 2026, 22:41)
the thing about us is that our species basically developed because we domesticated ourselves, it's like trying to rewild naked mole rats, being naked and social is their wild state.
There's a sci-fi (from the 1800s, so it's quaint in how inaccurate it is) that literally has humans are actually Neotonous Apes and just never encountered the right trigger to end the neotony and change form
Esta entrada fue editada (sábado, 29 de agosto de 2026, 23:52)
i'm curious, and the wikipedia articles for domestic pigs or feral pigs don't seem to make any reference to this. if this is actually real, what's the mechanism for this change? the only thing i can think of that would make sense would be that it's dietary, but the pigs at the farm up the hill from me spend most of their time foraging around their very large enclosure, and they still seem pretty tusk-less and stereotypically pink as any domestic pig.
it seems pretty far-fetched to me, i'd bet the reality is that it only takes one or two generations for them to effectively become wild again, and that got fed through a game of telephone.
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To actually measure causation rather than correlation, though, you'd need a much more intensive experiment tracking a large number of individuals both before and after changing their lifestyle to either be less outdoors or more outdoors.
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