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To: Krowbar who wrote (26358)	11/29/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<But how do we explain, as somebody here pointed out, the loss of hair on our domes, if the purpose was to retain body heat.> Del, I didn't exactly say that the purpose of hair was to retain body heat. It does that work that way, however, so men who got really hairy as they aged had the opportunity to pass along their genes to more children, perhaps. Hair on the head is a different story, and I am out of theories. Could the body hair sprouting have been a compensation for the loss of head hair? And how do we know that the cave men went bald? Perhaps that only happened later, as civilization progressed and hats became more prevalent. Head hair is also different, in that most mating occurs before men start going bald. So the gene is carried on even though natural selection is occurring on other fronts, because it is invisible to the comely cave girl who wants a strong, cute guy in her mammoth-skin nest. There are still a lot of men on earth who are extremely hairy. Most women do not find these guys attractive, although certainly there are exceptions. So once clothing was available and it was not a necessity for survival, I suspect that the less hairly guys were more appealing, and got to sow a lot more seed, thus causing subsequent generations to be less hairy, as well.