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Evolutionists.  How is human head hair evidence of evolution?

Our head hair grows continuously.  no other animal does this.  Extra long hair serves no purpose.  And consider chin hair.  Yes for men and no for women...usually.  Beards serve no purpose, and why only one sex has this trait.

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  • 8 months ago

    There is no such thing as an evolutionist, not even bothering to read the question past the word evolutionist.

  • Paul
    Lv 7
    8 months ago

    So, you discovered that different characteristics exist among different species, and you think that disproves biological evolution, when in fact that is exactly what biological evolution is all about.

    born again Christian biologist

  • Cowboy
    Lv 6
    8 months ago

    It's all in our HOX genes also our sex hormones:

    Hox in hair growth and development

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-0...

    The Biology of Hair Growth

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...

  • Well! If you don't want hair, cut it off!

  • 8 months ago

    You don't seem to know what evolution is and how it works. Perhaps you should learn before you mention it again. That way you won't embarrass yourself like you just did.

  • 8 months ago

    Not every trait has a marked evolutionary advantage. 

  • Ted K
    Lv 7
    8 months ago

    There is no such thing as an "evolutionist." 

    How staggeringly ignorant is it to think that some claim about hair, all by itself, is somehow going to challenge the bedrock foundation of modern biology?

    Last week you tried to do this over chins.  This week it's hair.  Which one will you "grace" us with next time?  Earlobes? Cowlicks?  Boogers?  Zits?

  • Acetek
    Lv 4
    8 months ago

    Yep you christians are dumber than a box of hammers.   Animal hair falls out after x length and y time  

    Have you noticed that your pubes do not need to be cut.  They fall out.  But you many have not reached puberty yet.;

  • Anonymous
    8 months ago

    IT IS NOT.....GOD MADE ALL LIFE BY SPEAKING IN BEGINNING AND THE REST OF US CAME THROUGH SEX.

  • Anonymous
    8 months ago

    Actually, I can explain why women don't have beards from an evolutionary standpoint. Traditionally, women have been the ones to remain home with the children. Therefore, successful mothers have had higher pitched voices and less facial hair so that their children would better relate to them.

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