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Good question. We don't really know. There are several options, and the most famous (or infamous, really) is the aquatic ape theory. Other options could be runaway sexual selection or the handicap principle. Try Googling these and see what you find. To add, an important distinction to make is that we aren't the only primates without body hair. We are the only living primates without body hair. Our direct primate ancestors, over years of evolution, slowy lost body hair for different reasons. In simplest terms, this occured because they did not need such body hair to survive in their enviroment. Other living primates today have different amounts of body hair because of the different attributes they evolved to have. Many primates may be able to surive without their body hair, but they do not lose it because they continue to breed with other who have such attributes.

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