@bkcunningham I’ll try.
Ahem.
Man wasn’t descended from apes, science says we share a common ancestor. Therefore, it is safe to assume that if we were descended from that ancestor, then apes needed fur and humans didn’t, so the furred humans and the furless apes died out. Why the apes needed fur and us not, I don’t know.
(As a side note, I don’t think that we were descended from something else. Even though ape’s DNA and ours only differ by a few percent [some say 5%, some say 2%], If 5% of the DNA is different, this amounts to 150,000,000 DNA base pairs that are different between them! Even if it’s only 2%, that’s still 60,000,000 base pairs that are different. That’s a lot!)