Call it a cope if you want but men balding clearly has some reproductive purpose or else it wouldn't have happened on such a large scale in the first place. It's some response to our environment, maybe related to sunlight and vitamin D. Maybe it's not considered visually attractive but it's clearly an evolutionary step.

@c For some reason women seem to like baldness, so there ya go

@CatLord @c

Actually plenty of physical traits occur with no evolutionary benefit because the genes have been introduced to the gene pool but have not yet been eliminated from it

That takes a long time

And someone could have beneficial genes along with bad genes

So genes do not get completely eliminated like that

What is the evolutionary advantage of all the genetic disorders Ashkenazi Jews have

Based on your logic those genes would not exist if they did not have a advantage

Fair but what is the specific drawback of natural baldness? Hair was a need for the ice age and the planet has warmed considerably. It's not a deficiency like mental illness lol

@c @CatLord

What if the purpose of the baldness is to reduce reproduction rates of old men which provides a benefit to the community the old man is a part of even though it hurts the old man's ability to reproduce

Some bald old men are still able to reproduce by accumulating wealth

But the baldness reduces their reproduction rate