Why Do Men Grow Facial Hair? - Greg foot answers - Head squeeze

Hey head squeezers, I hope you're well. First up, a huge thank you from all of us at Head Squeeze HQ for all the brilliant questions that you've been sending in and also all of our new subscribers -- welcome! Right, let's get stuck in. This one is from Benjamin Jones, a really great one from YouTube who asks, why are men able to grow facial hair yet women are not. Right for this lets go right back to the beginning. Lets start when we are kids, awww. We are actually covered all over in soft light body hair known as vellus hair. Now jump to puberty, alright calm down. Puberty is where everything changes doesn't it. Now hormones called androgens are present in both sexes in male and female. What they do is they cause that hair during puberty to get coarser thicker and to darken especially in our armpits and our, emm, our bits, bring the camera up, I know what you're doing there. Now chaps have more of these androgens than the ladies, that leaves us to get a bit of sprouting on our chest, maybe on our chest, maybe on our upper lip, or maybe a full blown beard. As a little aside if you want to see me with a full face of facial fur then click on this video here, which will take you to an earlier Q&A where I spent a month in the Himalaya's. And I got a good full beard. Now the question is why is it that blokes can get a good old beard on where as women cant. And I must say I'm ignoring the beard ladies of the Victorian circuses. Aren't I madam? Sir. Madam. Anyho, right. For this we need to look back In to our prehistory and welcome Mr Charles Darwin who himself has a pretty impressive lustrous beard. We want to look at his theory of *** selection. Now think of a lion with a lustrous mane or maybe a peacock with a fantastic big colourful tail. Now Darwin says that they've evolved to look like that to attract the opposite sex to attract the female of the species. And also for them to look more bigger and powerful in front of a rival male. So maybe in our evolution before the invention of the razor, it was decided that a man with a bit of facial fuzz looked much better to a woman and a woman who had less hair looked better to a man so maybe that's come out of our evolution. But in exchange for a subscribe, for those of you watching this who haven't yet subscribed, it's a fair exchange, a bonus fact? Ok, if a man doesn't shave at all in the whole of his lifetime, he beard can grow to 30 feet long. Impressive stuff. Right I think we'll leave this one there. In the comments write who is your favourite bearded person. That will be an interesting one for us all to read. Until next time happy head squeezing.