Baldness

[gap5ewl]

I myself have wondered if there was a reason for male pattern baldness. If you're older, you can obviously make that connection. But for someone under 50 or so going bald, what exactly is the evolutionary purpose? I'm in my twenties and already experiencing it. I do seem to remember reading a theory that that males who would not fight or take over the group would bald to show their mental domination.

 

[Dark Carnage]

The point of Life isn't to breed...that sounds lame. Ok, it probably is...but there has to be more than just sex to reproduce.

Tell that to the Salmon and every other species that bites the big one after le petite morte.

 

[wiegeabo]

I myself have wondered if there was a reason for male pattern baldness. If you're older, you can obviously make that connection. But for someone under 50 or so going bald, what exactly is the evolutionary purpose? I'm in my twenties and already experiencing it. I do seem to remember reading a theory that that males who would not fight or take over the group would bald to show their mental domination.

Like I said on the last page, I think it's a byproduct of millennia of selecting for less hairy people.

We went from hairless apes, to only hairy in certain places. The next step would be to be hairless in those places as well, eventually making everyone bald.

For whatever reason, we decided we like the hair we have and started selecting in the other direction in favor of hair. And now we've bread this strange mixing of hairy-hairless apes

 

[The Morningstar]

We're talking evolutionarily here. The point of life is to breed. You breed soon after puberty. Anything after that is irrelevant.

So you are encouraging teenage pregnancy?

 

[steintym]

I already have hair on my ears, shoulders, and back at 24...does this mean I'm going in reverse or just related to big foot?

I would suggest investing in a Mangroomer immediately.

 

[wiegeabo]

So you are encouraging teenage pregnancy?

Until relatively recently (in the scope of humanity), that was the norm.

 

[Marx]

I don't think evolution has anything to do with baldness. It's a part of getting older.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Until relatively recently (in the scope of humanity), that was the norm.

Yup. Kids by 12, dead by 40

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I despise the fact that once I reach a certain age, my body will start to deteriorate. What's the point of living a 100 years if you're to spend 40-60 years as an obsolete model?

I refuse to go blind, deaf, idle, etc.

 

[Dark Carnage]

Yar, I was listening to the Ricky Gervais podcasts a while back and the subject turned to people having to wear adult diapers on trains in China because the journeys are so long.

I just thought "Mental note, if you ever reach the age where you crap yourself on a daily basis, it's time to die."

Back to balding. I believe one of the causes is certain people stop being able to effectively deal with a certain enzyme, as such this builds up around hair follicles and it's up choking the root until closes up.