My theories are that some men go bald so when men would be in tribes hunting food, the bald man could use his shiny head to reflect the sun's rays off his scalp and into enemy tribe's eyes to blind them
>>17087539>survival advantage of hair negated by the invention of hats>testosterone is more beneficial to survival than hair>most men have (or should have) reproduced by the age they start balding anyway
Daily reminder when your fundamental sexual traits start to diminish, it's already served its purpose and there is no more evolutionary pressure to maintain it.By the time you go bald, you're useless as something to propagate your genes and have no need to be attractive anyway. It's over for baldies
supposedly to improve the intake of vitamin D through the scalp.
>>17087559Adaptationalism is gay. This guy's more on point: >>17087558By the time your ancestors went bald, they already bred. Or they had something else going that alliwed them to breed. All that matters is whether you have kids that end up having kids. All else collapses to that basic principle.
>>17087556I started going bald at 20 :(
>>17087539Baldness is a maladaptation which will phase out as women start to filter for it as well there probably being some dna therapy for it sooner of later.If you're balding, you're sub optimal and im sorry to say borderline subhuman
>>17087539>hairless apes go a bit more hairless >OMG WHY Cause we dont need hair. That's it. There's no purpose to growing hair so this energy-intensive ability is slowly being phased out from our species. The idea that hair is important is a purely social construct of effiminate society. Whats funny, is that humans largely prefer hairlessness everywhere on the body... except the head, for some reason. Nobody wants hair on their legs, ass, armpits or back. Head is the last bastion of hair that civilization inexplicably decided to tie to attractiveness and continues to sexually select for.
It allows the rest of the tribe to instantly see who the managerial frauds are
>>17087539I guess if you're the only male it doesn't matter but if there's other younger males it favors them, if nature selects for diversity
>>17087539>evolution>reasonthat's not how it works, OP
>>17087558>>17087581Then why when you get bald, you get a dense think hair on your shoulders?Your explanation is hust idiotic.
>>17087897Not all men develop it
>>17087596Your ancestors had 5 kids at that age
>>17087599It's a youthful trait. Being bald and having plenty of body hair means you're old
>>17088060I... did not :(
I would say to signal to younger men they are old, and therefore are not competition so they are not violently attacked.
its a marker to mitigate failed genetic pathways
>>17087539Baldness is superior, you don't have to waste time washing, trimming or getting a haircut every now and then.
>>17087539>Is there an evolutionary reason for baldness?theres very little balding among pure native americans, and among pure east asians that dont have ancestral race mixing, which would be most of them.When you see an east asian with a scruffy beard, thats not a pure asian. Pure asians cant grow beards, and dont go bald. You only find these in isolated pockets.
>>17088422he doesn't know about the Ainu, noone tell him
>>17088422Im white and not going bald and cant grow a beard and im nearly 37
>>17087539nobody can prove that baldness was detrimental to reproduction at an evolutionary level. that's your problem. if baldness was truly detrimental it would simply have disappeared.it's a typical fallacy. the vast majority of last-century sexual selection criteria are purely artificial and uncorrelated with the "natural" selection criteria that have applied for dozens of thousands of years. yet it's exclusively these prehistoric natural criteria that have actually determined our phenotype.you are equipped for a timeless seduction game whose rules suddenly no longer apply.
>>17089560and baldness is just one example.>vast majority of Western women prefer beardless men (the share was much higher a few decades ago), yet almost all Western men naturally grow a full beard>vast majority of Western men prefer women with shaven pits and legs, yet almost all Western women naturally grow visible hair thereeven if 100% of women shaved for a millenium that would not stop women from naturally growing hair, because for a dozen thousand generations their ancestors who actually had sex preferred hairy women.
>>17087539Baldness is a proof of being a sexually mature man. Women and femboys do not go bald, because they are low T and full of soi.This is just like the silverback gorillas. Bald head is the silverback that proves that you are the kang of the jungle.
>>17087556testsosterone itself doesn't cause balding though
