Among those pallid male enigmas are: Why are men so much hairier than women? Futhermore, why is this hirsuteness distributed as it is, especially prominent on the face (brad & mustache) and, to a lesser extent chest, and arms and legs> and when that men are generally more hairs than women -- whatever the reason -- why is this difference reversed on top of the head? It is well known that testosterone is intimately involved here, along with genetics, but this doesn’t explain why the outcome -- which presumably has been favored by natural selection -- is what it is. “Male pattern baldness,” for example is a description, not an explanation.
Most evolutionary biologists would likely suspect that the answer has something to do with social signaling, but exactly what? It doesn’t seem that there has ever been any interesting speculation. Yet. ~ Page 73
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Most evolutionary biologists would likely suspect that the answer has something to do with social signaling, but exactly what? It doesn’t seem that there has ever been any interesting speculation. Yet. ~ Page 73