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A brief history of beard

LUIGI LO FORTI

H&PC Today (TKS Publisher)

ABSTRACT: As of puberty, a man will grow facial hair. Women will do the same yet to a much lesser extent. While women will simply try to get rid of hair routinely, men will typically deal with hair, or better play with it, by combing, trimming, shaping  or simply shaving it. Facial hair is the most evident, secondary  sexual characteristic in males, thus it’s perfect to show manhood to women and warn other men to stay away. Hence, not surprisingly, the way a beard (and a moustache) has been considered and managed socially has constantly changed  over the centuries.

INTRODUCTION
As the most recent research seems to demonstrate, humans have been “hairless” (actually, our body is covered with hair, it’s just that it has increasingly thinned and shortened) for over one million years (1). There are only a few areas of our body where hair still grows relatively thick: the head, the armpits and, as with men, the face, the latter forming a beard and a moustache. These changes occurred because of evolutive pressure (2), and the differences between hair growth in men and women we ...
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