Recusant said:
Lil devils x said:
Recusant said:
A few clarifications.
Firstly, facial hair is (biologically) supposed to cover pretty much the entire lower front half of your head. Calling a man "neckbeard" is like calling a woman "chestboobs"; they may well be offended, but it's not actually an insult, the thing in question is supposed to be there.
Secondly, having a beard doesn't itch- not having a beard (or, more to the point, hairs growing in those first few millimeters) itches. Once the hair comes in, the itching stops. Shaving is, by and large, for the impatient (or for those smooching the hairy ones; I claim no firsthand knowledge on that front); the genuine inability to grow facial hair is rather uncommon, most people just can't be bothered to wait. As Chesterton so eloquently put it, "you cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion", after all.
Claiming it is supposed to cover your face is silly, thankfully where I come from the men do not grow facial hair outside of eyebrows, and have no need to shave. Hopefully in the future men will stop having the ability to grow them at all. Just as we are happy now we are not walking around with tails sticking out, we will be happy when men do not have pubes on their face.
No one has pubes on their face, that's not how faces work. The things atop your head are not called "scalps"; hair is hair, not where it grows. More to the point, claiming it's supposed to cover your face is reflective of biological reality; our most recent evolutionary steps in this department didn't take facial away, they gave us more- look at the other apes. It's not due to speciesism that no chimp or gorilla has ever won a beard and mustache contest.
As to the lack of tails: those are bold words from a bipedal animal that can crack its head open and die just from falling down while walking normally. We'd do well to ask if leaving them behind was really such a good idea.
Im sorry, I allowed my repulsion of facial hair make what could be considered a rather bad joke. Hair is hair yes, but it is not " all the same" we have different types of hair. Both Facial beards and Pubic hair are Androgenic hair, (see diagram in the link provided below) and yes, evolution has been in favor of reducing it, not increasing it. The males where I come from do not have androgenic facial hair, neither do the women and no they dont need to pluck it or shave. Nope, no mustache contests there. HAHA
"Evolution of less body hair[edit]
Hair is a very good thermal conductor and aids heat transfer both into and out of the body. When goose bumps are observed, small muscles (Arrector pili muscle) contract to raise the hairs both to provide insulation, by reducing cooling by air convection of the skin, as well as in response to central nervous stimulus, similar to the feeling of 'hairs standing up on the back of your neck'. This phenomenon also occurs when static charge is built up and stored in the hair. Keratin however can easily be damaged by excessive heat and dryness, suggesting that extreme sun exposure, perhaps due to a lack of clothing, would result in perpetual hair destruction, eventually resulting in the genes being bred out in favor of high skin pigmentation. It is also true that parasites can live on and in hair thus peoples who preserved their body hair would have required greater general hygiene to prevent diseases.[7]
Markus J. Rantala of the Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, said humans evolved by "natural selection" to be hairless when the trade off of "having fewer parasites" became more important than having a "warming, furry coat".[8]
P.E. Wheeler of the Department of Biology at Liverpool Polytechnic said quadrupedal Savannah mammals of similar volume to humans have body hair to keep warm while only larger quadrupedal Savannah mammals lack body hair, because their body volume itself is enough to keep them warm.[9] Therefore, Wheeler said humans who should have body hair based on predictions of body volume alone for Savannah mammals evolved no body hair after evolving bipedalism which he said reduced the amount of body area exposed to the sun by 40%, reducing the solar warming effect on the human body.[9]
Decreased body hair began in humanoids over 2 million years ago and aided persistence hunting (the ability to catch prey in very long distance chases) in the warm savannas where humanoids first evolved. This is well before homo sapiens evolved. The two main advantages are felt to be bipedal locomotion and better greater thermal load dissipation capacity due to better sweating and less hair."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgenic_hair
As we moved out of the colder climates we also lost our need for body hair and facial hair, some people have little or none at all. Native Americans have the least amount of body and facial hair while the Ainus are believed to have the most.
