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One of the great questions for the fashion industry must be, When was clothing invented? Climate being what it is, body coverings could not have been long in coming after the loss of hominid fur, but the familiar paleontological clues aren't much use in pinning down either of those developments. Fossilized bones say nothing about external layers, and skin and clothes don't fossilize well. But Ralf Kittler, a geneticist now at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology...