""And, of course, if we are descended from apes then evolution has decided we do not need body hair.""

My old science teacher would have become apoplectic, if I had made that comment.

I can just hear him now.

"Sloppy thinking BOY!

Humans did not descend from apes. They are our cousins, on a different branch, descended from a common ancestor. Write that out five hundred times, and submit it to me by Friday lunchtime".

I never quite had the nerve to ask him if the common ancestor wasn't perhaps an ape.

Don T.