What's worse, being bald or...

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I think a lack of gender equality adequately explains the past!

[Gusto]

But bald men have always been able to get intimate with women.

[gmonasco]

Personally, I don't understand how baldness has been able to spread in the first place. Quite what allowed evolution to lapse so spectacularly is one of the mysteries of science. Those of us who are balding are less attractive, tend to be psychologically damaged and have no defence against the sun on our scalps yet we've survived through history.

But in the timescale of human history, the notion that male baldness is unattractive and makes one "psychologically damaged" is a fairly recent phenomenon. (The same could be said of obesity.)

You can't really interpret evolutionary processes solely by the standards of modern society.

[KeepTheHair]

I doubt people always lived long enough to endure it. By the time of Julius Caesar they at least had good societies going. Not like apes.

In the passed generations we evolved from getting a mate prior to the age of 20, thats what I think.

Mostly anyway. Life spans only got much longer in the last few hundred years.


Of course... this all depends on what you believe in.

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That's probably what Julius Caesar thought.

I don't want prematurely balding children (it could start as young as 15 - people have always had to live long enough to endure it).

No thanks, no way.

[KeepTheHair]

But this no children thing is very stupid. There will definitely be a cure for any children to come from a balding man today. I am sure of it. It's a loooong time away. There will be good treatments, which will be much cheaper then.

Seriously.

[Gusto]

Yeah, the baldness gene is not normal, or why else would a man have hair in the first place.

[KeepTheHair]

Humans are too plentiful and multicultural to really evolve as a species today.


When we did evolve our lifespans weren't that long at all. My best guess is everyone still had their hair when they found a partner etc. Only today do we live long enough to go bald. Which is more good then bad... especially if we can find a cure.

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I'm not sure I agree. I think it's surprising any treatments exist at all to be honest.

Hair loss is a genetic condition and like all genetic conditions it has historically been impossible to cure and difficult to treat. I think the recent discovery of a gene that promotes hair miniturization demonstrates that this is going to be one hell of a bugger to defeat (which is why hair cloning, which doesn't take on genetics head on, is probably our best bet)!

The only way to beat baldness will be to either work around the genetic defect or to manually perform the role the genetic defect is stopping. Hair transplantation does the former, whilst Histogen will hopefully do the latter. I think we are incredibly lucky to be alive today and not 100 years earlier, because the only good thing about being bald in the past was the shorter life expectancy.

Personally, I don't understand how baldness has been able to spread in the first place. Quite what allowed evolution to lapse so spectacularly is one of the mysteries of science. Those of us who are balding are less attractive, tend to be psychologically damaged and have no defence against the sun on our scalps yet we've survived through history. Somehow there must be a lot of blind women out there (my girlfriend included)! You might say this devastating gene is one bad ass motherf*cker.

However, one way or another, it will be defeated. My generation are going to be the last in the family line (no plans for children from any of us), so our bald genes will go to our graves. I think it's a solution; 99.9% of bald men disagree!

[Gusto]

Society's immaturity and the demanding maintenance of a hair piece are enough to put me off. I'm just looking forward to the cure which, believe me, is well on the way!

Odd how they've never found a cure, though.

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Society's immaturity and the demanding maintenance of a hair piece are enough to put me off. I'm just looking forward to the cure which, believe me, is well on the way!

[Gusto]

I still have enough hair for now :P


btw nice pic!

Yeah, I know. Ha, but it ain't me.

[KeepTheHair]

I still have enough hair for now :P


btw nice pic!

[Gusto]

That does make sense.

Pitty though. I would buy one heckova huge hair system

Go ahead, you might like it!

[KeepTheHair]

That does make sense.

Pitty though. I would buy one heckova huge hair system