If our ancestors learned to use animal skin to keep their body warm, why did it eventually turn into a construct of covering your bodies to hide your naked body?

Question

In other words, why did humans start feeling shame?

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Answer 1

Aquatic ape theory ftw

As early humans settled the coasts and rivers, we took on a few traits that make us suited for water compared to other apes.

Losing the fur for hydrodynamic body

Huge salt intake and very salty sweat (reason why animals tend to lick us), easier to maintain if you are by the sea.

Lowered center of mass so our heads don’t sink like apes

Micro webbing on the hands and feet – it’s tiny but if you look at other apes in between the fingers it’s much rounder

Wrinkling of the fingers – it’s not from absorbing water, it’s a autonomic nervous system response to improve grip with wet hands. People with nerve damage in the hand can sometimes never get wrinkly fingers from soaking.

Extra fat layer compared to other apes – most marine mammals have extra fat beneath the skin.

Also finally, breath control for diving. Not many animals can dive well, the best human times almost overlap with dolphin diving times.
Breath control is also the first step towards speaking and language – marine mammals have complex communications and whistling, arguable more language-like than ape vocalizations.

I feel like the aquatic evolutionary pressure is a stronger reason than the clothing/heat/endurance running reasons for losing the fur.