What Is The Reason Behind Male Pattern Baldness?
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Its high prevalence implies that it could have been evolved to make older men less attractive to females because older men carries more deleterious mutations in their sperm than females, which would have been a threat.
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Not everything that develops has an evolutionary advantage.
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Genetics. There’s no cosmic reason someone goes one way or the other, like any genetic trait it either expresses itself or it doesn’t. Evolution isn’t a perfect or uniform process. To ask why one might lose their hair when others don’t is a bit like asking why one person is tall and another is short; there is no existential reason for it, it just is the culmination of aeons of random interactions leading to a code that creates a result. Unfortunately, that’s just the way things are.
Perhaps evolution, unarrested, would eliminate hair loss from our DNA, but with the death of pure natural selection it’s unlikely to occur. So long as the lack of hair doesn’t preclude reproduction, it’s not going to be targeted naturally. If anything there’s a comfort in that; losing their hair didn’t stop your ancestors and it won’t stop you.
Perhaps evolution, unarrested, would eliminate hair loss from our DNA, but with the death of pure natural selection it’s unlikely to occur. So long as the lack of hair doesn’t preclude reproduction, it’s not going to be targeted naturally. If anything there’s a comfort in that; losing their hair didn’t stop your ancestors and it won’t stop you.
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+100 for genetics! Everyone is different!