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

I have heard a theory that the concept of sexual modesty only really took root with agriculture. once people had property worth leaving to their heirs all of a sudden men started really caring that their offspring were actually theirs and started jealously guarding partners and valuing virginity. If people had already been wearing clothes for practical reasons then the only time you would see a naked person was for sex and if promiscuity is bad then public nudity would become taboo.

That’s all guesswork. I don’t know if it’s possible to come up with substantial evidence of something like this happening so long ago.