Asian men are least likely to go bald sooner in life. Often many of them can never grow a full beard. If they can, it’s pretty thin, and they don’t have much hair on their body. But again, they’re less likely to go well, so there’s a definite trade-off. Do you think that there’s a specific nationality or certain place that that hairy ness comes from? Where does this hairy gene come from?
Indian men don’t refer to themselves as white. They have a unique tradition of keeping their fur as a beard or mustache. Looking at the Tamilians, you will see that a long mustache and short beard are the traditions that all men do. Also, the Mexican has the same tradition.
We all know our bodies look and function the way they do because of evolution. But did you know there are body parts that may not function? These are our so-called vestigial or useless features. Things like your appendix or wisdom teeth had fascinated scientists since Charles Darwin wrote about them in the 19th century when they were thought to be a hangover from our evolutionary past. The long list of body parts that Victorians thought were poorly suited to their tasks included the muscles that make our hairs stand on end when we shiver, the tailbone, the prostate gland, ear wiggling, and even body hair.
Scientists think we lost our dense hair covering when our ancestors stood upright and began to walk on two feet millions of years ago on the African Savannah. It probably allowed them to keep their bodies cooler when walking and running long distances in pursuit of food. But we’re surprisingly hairier than you’d think when we take a closer look, especially for Indian and Mexican.
Our hairs are rather short, except for the hair on our heads. The human body has around five million hair follicles, small organs in the skin from which hairs grow. After the hair is on your head, believe it or not, the highest concentration of hair follicles is on the wings of your nose or your nostrils. What does our sparse body hair do? Is it as useless as Darwin believed?
Our fine hair helps us maintain body temperature and acts as a sense organ that protects our eyes and the insides of our nose from dirt and other particles. That allows the body’s defenses and immune system. The mysterious hair sprouts in puberty around our genitals and armpits. Scientists still have no idea why pubic hair evolved.
