>>992162>Senpai, we developed shoes for more than just warmth in cold climates.I never said we didn't, anon-kun.
Getting a parasite from walking barefoot is not guaranteed, and not all parasites kill you or prevent you from reproducing, however, going barefoot all the time in a tundra environment is almost guaranteed to get you killed.
Obviously there are other benefits to wearing some kind of footwear regardless of environment, my main point is just that we have become such habitual shoe wearers since birth that our feet aren't developing in the environment it evolved to develop in.
Also, you could have chosen a better parasite than tunga penetrans, they aren't indigenous to Africa, only being introduced a few centuries ago, so they never played a role on early footwear development.
>>992623>If you live in Africa or South America, yeah.>mfw I live in Africa 