RalphyWiggum
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Stingray,
You are going to equate male pattern baldness to vestigial apparatus like a tail?
I have little doubt that male pattern baldness is the result of some point mutation in the homo genome thousands of years ago, but it doesn't serve as an evolutionary adaptation because it doesn't present us with any advantage in the game of natural selection.
I'd say considering that male pattern baldness is more prevalent in caucasians, it was a hormonal adaptation that served neanderthals well back during the ice ages. Most scientists theorize that the reeason for the neaderthal's disappearance was it's integration into the homo sapien population. Perhaps that's were we picked up the allele for Androgenetic Alopecia.
But who knows for sure....
You are going to equate male pattern baldness to vestigial apparatus like a tail?
I have little doubt that male pattern baldness is the result of some point mutation in the homo genome thousands of years ago, but it doesn't serve as an evolutionary adaptation because it doesn't present us with any advantage in the game of natural selection.
I'd say considering that male pattern baldness is more prevalent in caucasians, it was a hormonal adaptation that served neanderthals well back during the ice ages. Most scientists theorize that the reeason for the neaderthal's disappearance was it's integration into the homo sapien population. Perhaps that's were we picked up the allele for Androgenetic Alopecia.
But who knows for sure....
