Hair, rackets and turned cheeks

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:45:00 -0400
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Early humans lost hair to beat bugs :

“In animals, ectoparasites like biting flies, exert tremendous fitness costs - they really affect our health,” he told New Scientist. “Our view is that hairlessness is an adaptation for reducing the ectoparasite load.”

Protection rackets appearing in “The Sims” virtual world:

“They show up at your house and they request protection money. `You have to pay me 100,000 simolians if you don’t want your house torn down.’ It’s technically harassment.”

Someone is probably working on a sociology paper covering this already.

Finally, although I don’t share it’s basis or conclusions I’m happy to see Christian anti-Bush backlash starting.