Report Beard trend is 'guided by evolution'

[tom_mai78101]

Have we reached 'peak beard'?

The ebb and flow of men's beard fashions may be guided by Darwinian selection, according to a new study.

The more beards there are, the less attractive they become - giving clean-shaven men a competitive advantage, say scientists in Sydney, Australia.

This might be why we've hit 'peak beard'”. When "peak beard" frequency is reached, the pendulum swings back toward lesser-bristled chins - a trend we may be witnessing now, the scientists say.

Their study has been published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

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[Solu9]

Supply and demand, cause and effect.

 

[seph ir oth]

Physical traits are guided by evolution?

Whaaaaaaaaaat?

I didn't know that evolution involves the altering of physical traits of living things!

 

[Slapshot136]

this seems more like a fashion issue than an evolution issue

 

[FireCat]

this seems more like a fashion issue than an evolution issue

Yeah !

 

[KaerfNomekop]

this seems more like a fashion issue than an evolution issue

Well, fashion is a demonstration of natural selection at work. So yeah, it is evolution. It just happens that this case relates to biological traits, so people are more likely to compare it to evolution than fashion.