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The evolutionary reason was to show which male had the most amount of testosterone and this most likely to yield the strongest offspring. That is no longer the case as women nowadays prefer hair. Ah the simpler cromagnum times...
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That's a myth. It's not the testosterone levels man, it's the genetics that give certain guys DHT resistant hair. I see jacked guys with huge muscles at the gym that will never go bald and they have just as high testosterone levels as me most likely. It's not the androgen levels, it's the hair that we have. Like I said, no evolutionary benefit.Comment
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Should we get back on topic?Comment
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Just because something doesn't make you feel good about yourself doesn't mean that natural selection isn't acting upon it. Hair loss could be a sexually selected trait that conveys signals of social maturity to potential mates.
E.g. Sickle cell anaemia is a blood disorder that can protect against malaria. Anaemia in itself is not a condition that you want to have, but in certain situations it can be, and is selected for - becoming more prevalent in populations.Comment
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I see no benefit with baldness. The only guy who looked better bald I've seen is Zinedine Zidane.
Having a bald head exposed to the elements is not nice.
Having slightly thicker eyebrows and larger ears/nose are fine if you have a thick head of hair. Shave your head and these things become much more prominent.
Even good looking bald guys like James Blunt, Kelly Slater and Ljungberg looked better with hair.Comment
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Who cares what you think. There is a section of the forum for people to discuss this type of stuff.Comment
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Yes I am helping, by making you shut your shithole so the conversation doesn't continue to diverge.
There is a reason why there are different threads and sub forums. People come here to get information about the topic. And if there is nothing to say it's better to not say anything and have other conversations in the threads where they really belong to.
So have the decency to shut the **** up when you're wrongComment
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Your whining and bitching is far more distracting than what we're talking about. At least we're talking about relevant conversation to hair loss because all you're doing is complaining/bitching like a little girl on her first menstration cycle. Like who do you think you are? You have no authority on here so either make a relevant post like you've been preaching or stfu yourself big guy.Comment
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The only thing worse than threads going off topic are ones where members engage in a gum flapping exchange of insults.
Stop it.Comment
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Another reason why Tsuji's work matters
Here's another reason why Tsuji labs work should matter to us even if it is 10 years away. Imagine if we lived to 150 as healthy middle-aged men and women BUT with a BALD head...now that's not fun at all! LOL :P
TIME Talks to Google CEO Larry Page About Its New Venture to Extend Human Life
Bold project, to be led by biotech pioneer Arthur Levinson, will tackle's some of health care's biggest problems
By TIME Staff Sept. 18, 2013
Can Google, the technology giant best known for search and free email, tackle aging?
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company is planning to launch Calico, a new firm that will attempt to solve some of health care‘s most vexing problems. One of the independent venture’s major initiatives will be significantly expanding human lifespan. Arthur Levinson, the former chief of biotech pioneer Genentech, is an investor in Calico and will serve as its CEO.
Based in the Bay Area, not far from Google’s headquarters, Calico will be making longer-term bets than most health care firms. “In some industries, it takes ten or 20 years to go from an idea to something being real. Healthcare is certainly one of those ares,” said Page. “Maybe we should shoot for the things that are really, really important so ten or 20 years from now we have those things done.”
Google is keeping its exact plans close to the vest. But it is likely to use its data-processing might to shed new light on age-related maladies. Sources close to the project suggest Calico will start with a small number of employees and focus initially on researching new technology.
That approach may yield unlikely conclusions. “Are people really focused on the right things? One of the things I thought was amazing is that if you solve cancer, you’d add about three years to people’s average life expectancy,” Page said. “We think of solving cancer as this huge thing that’ll totally change the world. But when you really take a step back and look at it, yeah, there are many, many tragic cases of cancer, and it’s very, very sad, but in the aggregate, it’s not as big an advance as you might think.”
Calico is in line with Page’s oft-stated belief that the company should be aiming not just to make the world a little better, but a lot better. Page urges Google employees to engage in so-called 10x thinking—aspiring to create inventions which are better than anything that already exists by at least an order of magnitude.
To the future
Hooray!
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