# Cloned humans raised without parents. They grow to do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 11, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921 "2025-04-11T17:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 71
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921/71 "2025-04-14T20:02:59Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > You define clothes as having a function other than decoration or social signaling? Decoration and signaling can be functions of clothes. But just because it is used for decoration or social signaling, doesn’t make it clothing. For example, jewelry isn’t clothing. To me, at any rate. > [@DSeid](#): > > To me that seems historically a major function of clothing! Sure. Not _the_ major function, though, which has always been protection from the elements. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I feel like if you can’t be seen in public without it, then it is partly about modesty. It could also be about decorum\*, which is not the same thing. - which is etymologically related to decoration. > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I don’t think it’s clear whether we had further brain changes later than that. Possibly - I’m a gradualist on behavioural modernity, largely because Southern African archaeology points that way, but AFAIK, the jury is very much still out. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921)._