Why are humans one of the only mammals that don’t have fur all over their skin. What’s the advantage?

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Why are humans one of the only mammals that don’t have fur all over their skin. What’s the advantage?

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Most mammals do have fur, but we are NOT the only ones who are not covered in fur.

In fact, we are covered in fur. We just call it hair. And we’re covered with it, normally. Other generally considered “hairless” species are elephants, walruses, whales, moles, many species of pig are commonly and naturally hairless. Even more hairless than we are.

There there are select species, or sub-species, which can be hairless, like Sphynx cats, some highly specialized sub-species of rats and mice… so, actually, our lack of hair isn’t in any way remarkable…