Physically, clothing serves many purposes: it can serve as protection from the elements, and can enhance safety during hazardous activities such as hiking and cooking. It protects the wearer from rough surfaces, rash-causing plants, insect bites, splinters, thorns and prickles by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment. Clothes can insulate against cold or hot conditions. Further, they can provide a hygienic barrier, keeping infectious and toxic materials away from the body. Clothing also provides protection from harmful UV radiation. 

There is no easy way to determine when clothing was first developed, but some information has been inferred by studying lice. The body louse specifically lives in clothing, and diverge from head lice about 107,000 years ago, suggesting that clothing existed at that time. Another theory is that modern humans are the only survivors of several species of primates who may have worn clothes and that clothing may have been used as long ago as 650 thousand years ago. Other louse-based estimates put the introduction of clothing at around 42,000–72,000 BP. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the purpose of clothing?
2. Why do humans wear clothes?
3. What does wearing clothes do for humans?
Q2:
1. What purposes does wearing clothing serve?
2. What are some examples of why humans wear clothes?
3. What is achieved when humans wear clothing?
Q3:
1. What does wearing clothes protect humans from?
2. What does clothing provide protection against?
3. What does putting on clothes shield us from?
Q4:
1. What does wearing clothes protect humans from, besides the elements?
2. What does clothing provide protection against, in addition to the elements?
3. What does putting on clothes shield us from, other than the elements?
Q5:
1. Through what mechanism does wearing clothes protect us?
2. How does wearing clothes keep us safe?
3. What are humans protected from when we wear clothes?
Q6:
1. Are there other mammals that wear clothes today, besides humans?
2. Do other mammals besides humans today wear clothing?
3. Are there more mammals than just humans that clothe themselves?
Q7:
1. For how long has the human race worn clothes?
2. How long has clothing been a part of the human race?
3. How long ago did people start wearing clothes?
Q8:
1. What gives us an indication of when people started wearing clothes?
2. How do researchers know when people first put on clothes?
3. What helps researchers determine the origin of wearing clothing?
Q9:
1. How do we know that clothing has been around for many years?
2. What is a specific indication of how long clothes have been around for?
3. What gives a precise measure of just how long humans have been wearing clothes?
Q10:
1. Does wearing clothes provide sun protection?
2. Are humans kept safe from the sun by wearing clothing?
3. Can clothing oneself keep you safe from the sun?
