Was baldness always a problem for men?

[oye_rg]

Was male pattern baldness always a problem for homo sapiens, and to the same extent or has it increased since humans became civilised? Does anyone have any data or facts that could help answer this please.

The reason I am curious is because of the other thread re theories behind male pattern baldness. Like all things, it has to be evolution and knowing the answer to my above query is the first step in establishing a theory. Of course it won't give anyone a miracle cure but underastanding the cause of a problem sometimes contains hidden clues to a solution.

 

[Cue Bald]

it happens in gorillas so it seems to have been in the gene pool for millions of years.. nobody really knows why.. perhaps it was some kind of social signalling for the apes that has just remained in our gene pool all these years?

 

[Armando Jose]

"Baldness was, of course, nothing new in the sixteenth-century England"
https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/files/14808064/strange_things_out_of_hair_scj.PDF

 

[resu]

Amerindians don't go bald so no, it's not part of evolution, it's a trait and serves no evolutionary purpose, it's just a random mutation in my opinion.

 

[I.D WALKER]

No, don't you know ages ago that this bald visitor had a creepy carnal predilection for our hairy little predecessors.

 

[oye_rg]

Amerindians don't go bald so no, it's not part of evolution, it's a trait and serves no evolutionary purpose, it's just a random mutation in my opinion.

Could it be they do not mix sexually with other humans and are genetically isolated?

 

[hairhair123]

Yes it is

:laugh:It is huge problem for men, but however men are good looking with less hair too.. the answer would be "it depends":laugh:

 

[GoldenMane]

Amerindians don't go bald so no, it's not part of evolution, it's a trait and serves no evolutionary purpose, it's just a random mutation in my opinion.

No male pattern baldness was secondarily lost in American Indians. Basically there was a population bottleneck in which a small number of Asians reached America, and it just so happened that none of them was carrying the male pattern baldness gene. A couple of thousand years later and you have a race of people with no male pattern baldness. If we did the same thing today, e.g. by sterilizing/killing everyone with the male pattern baldness gene, it would disappear from the face of the earth in under a hundred years. The cure to male pattern baldness is people with male pattern baldness not reproducing.

 

[Marky]

Even if only those with no male pattern baldness reproduced they still carry the recessive gene in them and sooner or later it would surface in the linage.

No male pattern baldness was secondarily lost in American Indians. Basically there was a population bottleneck in which a small number of Asians reached America, and it just so happened that none of them was carrying the male pattern baldness gene. A couple of thousand years later and you have a race of people with no male pattern baldness. If we did the same thing today, e.g. by sterilizing/killing everyone with the male pattern baldness gene, it would disappear from the face of the earth in under a hundred years. The cure to male pattern baldness is people with male pattern baldness not reproducing.

 

[Dench57]

If we did the same thing today, e.g. by sterilizing/killing everyone with the male pattern baldness gene, it would disappear from the face of the earth in under a hundred years. The cure to male pattern baldness is people with male pattern baldness not reproducing.

male pattern baldness - The Final Solution

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Baldness has been around since the beginning of time, before humans even existed. Other mammals also have baldness in certain species.

 

[Armando Jose]

which is the advantage of common baldness?
scalp human hair is the more evolved hair in nature, more than primates due its asynchronicity in hair cycle. then why can we lost it?
natura nihil frustra facit, nature does nothing in vain

 

[oye_rg]

Baldness has been around since the beginning of time, before humans even existed. Other mammals also have baldness in certain species.

That is interesting. Something I did not know. Do you have any informative links?

Does it cause these bald mammals to have reduced chances of finding a mate? Too much to ask for but maybe someone's done a study on that. Thanks