{"id":6332,"date":"2017-11-27T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:49","slug":"andrew-simons-answers-evolution-question-quirks-quarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2017\/andrew-simons-answers-evolution-question-quirks-quarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Simons answers evolution question for Quirks &#038; Quarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Andrew Simons answers evolution question for Quirks &#038; Quarks\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>&#8220;What is the evolutionary advantage for&nbsp;<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>&nbsp;becoming essentially hairless when compared to all other primates?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/andrew-simons\/\">Dr. Andrew Simons<\/a>, a professor in the department of biology at Carleton University, says it depends on which hypothesis you believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leading hypothesis, known as the &#8220;keep cool hypothesis,&#8221; happened&nbsp;1.6 to 1.2 million years ago. Prior to that point, our human ancestors were eating&nbsp;seeds and a lot of other vegetation. Climate change was also occurring at that time, which forced our ancestors to dramatically change their lifestyle to become much more active. That&#8217;s when they started hunting and meat was introduced into their diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/quirks\/2017-quirks-quarks-question-show-1.4410487\/what-was-the-evolutionary-advantage-for-homo-sapiens-becoming-essentially-hairless-compared-to-other-primates-1.4410523\">full transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Source: Quirks &amp; Quarks, CBC Radio, Saturday November 25, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What is the evolutionary advantage for&nbsp;Homo sapiens&nbsp;becoming essentially hairless when compared to all other primates?&#8221; Dr. Andrew Simons, a professor in the department of biology at Carleton University, says it depends on which hypothesis you believe. The leading hypothesis, known as the &#8220;keep cool hypothesis,&#8221; happened&nbsp;1.6 to 1.2 million years ago. Prior to that point, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}