Popular renderings dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur, with her face, hands, feet and breasts peeking out of denser thickets.This hairy picture of Lucy, it turns out, might be wrong.Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled.
I find it weird that nobody speculates that humans had rudimentary clothes when they lost their fur.
The article addresses exactly that
Not quite? It cites a 2010 paper about genetic evidence in clothing lice suggesting that clothes originated ~100,000 years ago, but said paper was before recent discoveries suggesting multiple dispersals and so might need to be reevaluated