{"id":169586,"date":"2023-08-12T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-modern-puzzle-why-did-humans-lose-their-fur"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:22:29","slug":"a-modern-puzzle-why-did-humans-lose-their-fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-modern-puzzle-why-did-humans-lose-their-fur","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Puzzle: Why Did Humans Lose Their Fur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-modern-puzzle-why-did-humans-lose-their-fur.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While human beings have many living ancestors \u2014 bonobos, chimps, gorillas \u2014 our absence of fur immediately marks us as something different.<\/p>\n<p>And though our big brains and bipedal posture have taken us to outer space, the reason our species transitioned to a mostly hairless body remains somewhat of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few other mammals share our genetic preference for sleek bodies, including rhinos, whales, elephants, and \u2014 everyone\u2019s favorite \u2014 the naked mole rat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While human beings have many living ancestors \u2014 bonobos, chimps, gorillas \u2014 our absence of fur immediately marks us as something different. And though our big brains and bipedal posture have taken us to outer space, the reason our species transitioned to a mostly hairless body remains somewhat of a mystery. Only a few other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}