December 20, 2020

THERE ARE NO DARWINISTS:

Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. So Why Do Humans Have It? (JOSH CLARK & CHUCK BRYANT, 12.20.2020, Wired)

AS IT TURNS out, facial hair is not a functional physical human trait in the way we thought it was for many years. It's an ornamental one. In fact, of all the physical features on the human body--including other kinds of hair--facial hair is the only one that is purely or primarily ornamental. That is, it doesn't actually do anything or perform any kind of specific physiological function. 

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