Recent content by fnarr

Hi everyone, I've been lurking around here for a couple of months, posting when I thought I had something unique to add. I thought it's about time I threw my hat in properly. I am 22 years old and 6'1". Until about summer of 2003 my weight fluctuated between around 18 and 18.5 stone...

Small point of pedantry: there is no type I or type II DHT. There is just DHT. Type I and type II refers to the two forms of the enzyme (enzymes anre proteins that speed up reactions in living organisms) 5-alpha reductase which converts free testosterone to dihydrotestosteron (DHT). In...

I think everyone should take what dermatologists say about anything with a massive pinch of salt. As a field, it tends to attract a certain type of doctor; it pays VERY well an it isn't the same level of commitment as, say, internal medicine, and is usually relatively routine in terms of the...

I've noticed there's a tendency on this forum to attribute any percieved physical changes to individual drugs/therapies or whatever combination people are using. This is not valid reasoning. If I start slapping myself in the face every five minutes, then in two weeks I win the lottery, am I to...

Given ALOT of heat is lost through our heads in cold weather (largely due to the energy-hungry human brain) it's perfectly conceivable that poorer scalp capillary circulation was an adaptive response in European/northern peoples (reducing blood flow or metabolism in the brain is not really an...

Footy, I like your ideas - baldness has to be a 'side-effect' of some underlying adaptation. From what I remember if you plot a graph of testicle size against body size humans fall somewhere in the mid range. Highly promiscuous species such as bonobos have to invest in massive balls for their...

Hi Guys, I think we all need to be careful about over-interpreting baldness in an evolutionary context. I'm an evolutionary biologist (final year PhD at a leading UK university), so I'm going to try and clarify a few things. I'm not trying to patronise or anything, just inform the discussion...