I was in the city the other day and a block away from my condo is a place call "The Wax Bar". We started talking about the way we are ripping our body hair out more and more and it growing back less every time. I wonder if it will be part of evolution. First with the ladies, because they seem to be waxing more, them the men. we will have less body hair? What are your thoughts
I doubt it. People of certain religious beliefs have been circumsising their male children for thousands of years, and not one has been born that way. Evolution doesn't pick and choose a trait to promote. Evolution is blind, in that sense. It is just that the successful traits are the ones that we see....such as the ability to walk upright, to chew both flesh and plant matter (thus increasing our potential food sources) and so on. For what it's worth, Dawkins has published some very readable books on evolution and on explaining the views of Darwin. Good thread though.
So humans evolved into hairless beings only to clothe themselves in any case? Yep, something's odd about human evolution right there.
Interestingly enough though there is a counter-theory going on that evolution, or natural variation, isn't as blind as once proposed. For instance we are learning that genetics can code for things that are dormant and the environment can trigger the gene, and the phenotype can change. Genetics is a very weird topic that we're learning is constantly in flux.
I personally dont like having hair on my body, but thats not to say i dont like it on a woman, its just a personal preference to me, i use razors to deforest myself, never let it grow long enough to wax lol...
I wish they'd turn on the gene to grow our tails.......now THAT would be sexy. And you'd have a handle during doggy style....
Some people are born with small tails but it's a hassel to live with and the way most modern human are today they'd sit on it which would cause pain. So surgery happens...and honestly I think having a tail would freak a majority of people out In fact I'm ask right now...if you had a sex partner who had a tail how would you react? Positivelyor negatively?
Historically, we've gone through stages of hair/no hair. Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome despised hair on bodies. Everyone who had any status was pure "Brazilian" Somehow I doubt the dark ages saw a lot of depilation. The next stage of no-hair was the 1500's (we're only talking people of rank here - i also doubt the peasants worried that much: there was far more interest in staying alive) Also, the European Courts of the 1750's - Napoleonic times. It is reputed that Marie Antionette was as bald as a badger "down there." However you look at photos of women since then and up till the 1980's, body hair was well and truly rampant. Somehow, I feel evolution hasn't yet learned to pass on the DNA of Lady Gillette. And this is from someone who's little triangle matches the Brazilian rainforest in size and thickness.
