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men hair lengh
Question
Aquatic Ape Hypothesis revisited
th age
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 22:59, 16
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All hair has a cycle and falls out. Head hair has a longer one before falling out but it grows continously.
Body hair grows (https://informwiki.com/how-to-grow-hair-faster-easily/) but then stops growing after a
period of time and eventually drops out sooner than head hair.

men hair lengh

the article says:

Before the First World War men generally had long hair and beards.

is there a ref on this? Xah Lee 13:38, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Good call Xah, I’m going to have to raise the BS flag on this one; the masculinity of short hair in western
culture stems from the Roman army not the Great War.

It's true though, I mean, it had never really taken off outside of cultures that had pedo-
homosexual tendencies and wanted men to look like little boys. The romans did start it but
it wasn't big in the West in general until lice broke out in WW1.

Question
How long does it take hair to grow back if you pull it out?
(OK, so it will probably vary from person to
person and depending on what type of hair, so how long would it take, on average, for facial hair to grow
back when pulled out?) thanks

Aquatic Ape Hypothesis revisited

I thought I'd changed this back in February but for some reason either I forgot, or something went wrong.
As per my comments of 21 Feb 2006, I now propose to rewrite paras 3 through 5. Though some edits have
been made to that section in the intervening period, I don't think they've contributed anything substantial
nor solved the problem of clunky English. The new para 5 seems superfluous. It just expands on the
Fisherian hypothesis, though with some useful references. It would be better just to add these to the links
section. Consequently, I propose to keep the wording that I proposed earler. Your comments would be
appreciated.

Proposed new text:

Several theories have been advanced to explain the apparent bareness of human body hair. All are faced
with the same problem that there is no fossil record of human hair to back up the conjectures nor to
determine exactly when the feature evolved.

Savanna theory suggests that nature selected humans for shorter and thinner body hair as part of a set of
adaptations, including bipedal locomotion and an upright posture, for a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle on
the African plains. There are several problems with this savanna theory, not least of which is that cursorial
hunting is used by (other) animals that do not show any thinning of hair.

Another theory for the thin body hair on humans proposes that Fisherian runaway sexual selection played a
role here (as well as in the selection of long head hair). Possibly this occurred in conjunction with neoteny,
with the more juvenile appearing females being selected by males as more desirable; see types of hair and
vellus hair.

The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis posits that sparsity of hair is an adaptation to an aquatic environment, but it
has little support amongst scientists and very few aquatic mammals are, in fact, hairless.

th age
The oldest undisputed know fossils (…), giving th age as no later than (…).
I believe it should say “the
age”, but I don’t dare to edit. :’) 178.197.228.105 (talk) 13:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Fixed, thank you. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:44, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Stop asking me for donations

Stop asking me for donations its bullying and annoying to show me how many times I use wiki
2603:7000:C240:3700:B8C1:BD52:2214:CCA0 (talk) 15:54, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

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