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What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame
- Scientists discovered a nearly complete 3.2-million-year-old female fossil of Australopithecus afarensis, called Lucy, in 1974.
- Genetic analysis suggests Lucy may have had little or no body fur, implying she was naked or nearly naked.
- Human ancestors lost most body fur between 3 to 4 million years ago, but clothing use began only between 83,000 to 170,000 years ago according to studies on coevolution with lice.
- The social concept of shame likely developed as a mechanism to enforce privacy and modesty, making nakedness a forbidden state.
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