rain-shedding

Updated: May 25, 2025

Unless the anterior limb of the hairy human ancestor was held in the position of the climbing ape's, this arrangement would be disadvantageous, for the hair as a rain-shedding thatch would be effective only upon the upper arm, while the hairs upon the forearm would catch the rain.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope