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Modesty, sculpture by Louis-Léopold Chambard, 1861 Recreation on a California beach in the first decade of the 20th century. Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
The Adamites, a Christian sect that practiced holy nudity, date back to the 2nd century AD. 70,000 BP: Humans first wear clothing, a date suggested by evidence based on lice DNA which shows when the clothing louse first began to diverge genetically from the human head louse.
Another Japanese tradition was the women free-divers (ama, 海女) who for 2,000 years until the 1960s collected seaweed and shellfish nude or wearing only loincloths. [116] Women farmers often worked bare-breasted during the summer [117] while other workers might be nude. [116]
Nakedness and clothing use are characteristics of humans related by evolutionary and social prehistory. The major loss of body hair distinguishes humans from other primates. . Current evidence indicates that anatomically modern humans were naked in prehistory for at least 90,000 years before they invented clothi
Overview map of the peopling of the world by early humans during the Upper Paleolithic, following the Southern Dispersal paradigm. The so-called "recent dispersal" of modern humans took place about 70–50,000 years ago. [62] [63] [64] It is this migration wave that led to the lasting spread of modern humans throughout the world.
Okoye is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Christopher Priest and artist Mark Texeira, the character first appeared in Black Panther (vol. 3) #1 (November 1998). [1] Okoye is the General of the special forces for the fictional African nation of Wakanda called Dora Milaje. [2]
Sexual selection is quite different in non-human animals than humans as they feel more of the evolutionary pressures to reproduce and can easily reject a mate. [2] The role of sexual selection in human evolution has not been firmly established although neoteny has been cited as being caused by human sexual selection. [ 3 ]
Bust of a Modest Roman Woman of the Severan Period 193-211 CE at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Romans, both men and women, were expected to uphold the virtue of pudicitia , a complex ideal that was explored by many ancient writers, including Livy , Valerius Maximus , Cicero , Tacitus and Tertullian . [ 1 ]