Why male pattern baldness has pattern?

[flaky]

hello there!
long time lurker,so basically can someone please answer this question? pure speculation or medicall studies all answers are welcomed

 

[abovedagame]

Sensitivity of these specific hairs to androgens? I'm not sure anyone really knows the answer to this question even in th scientific world.

 

[Austin:316]

It's a mystery

 

[Armando Jose]

Yet not resolved,

Genetics
Blood circulation
Gravity
Scalp tension
Hats
Contact with pillow

A lot of deas....Time for Ockham razzor....

 

[buckthorn]

Yet not resolved,

Genetics
Blood circulation
Gravity
Scalp tension
Hats
Contact with pillow

A lot of deas....Time for Ockham razzor....

well, it is definitely genetic, but the other's don't really make any sense. this is my favorite explanation regarding the evolution of male pattern baldness,

"A well-polished bald male head was often used by tribes of cavemen to blind predators. As a result every cavemen hunting group of 8 had one bald member, and thus thousands of years later 1 in 8 men experience early on set of baldness." hahaha

it's just one of those things that we evolved with. We see these things all around us, however, never give them too much consideration because they are not as socially significant. It occurs in other primates as well. It may have just been caused by a mutation somewhere along our evolution that "stuck". One theory is that men with male pattern baldness exude a level of maturity and this is desirable in natural selection. Why it's patterned is anybodies guess. Why do we grow patches of hair on our backs??? Why can more hair start to grow in otherwise bald areas of out bodies as we age?? It's all in gene expression and it S*CKS MY F*CKING BALLS!!!!

 

[Armando Jose]

buckthorn

A simple genetic test is neccesary, but its result point out that all healthy scalp hair are identical, then we are in the same boat