As I’ve gotten older, I mean.
Before people ripped my ear-hairs out, because whites apparently find it intolerable for another to have them ( my skin’s white, I’m 1/4 east-Indian )
it used to be possible to feel the slightest breeze, someone opening a door or window to a house/apartment I was in, or any similar thing.
Massive & unusual sense that people ripped out from my life.
I’ve only short ones, now, & it’s a bit like being deaf, to breezes, in comparison.
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Evolution doesn’t quite work like that. Traits aren’t always selected for/against, we have a ton of traits that we’re ambivalent enough about to pass on, like eye color and ear hair. It’s neither advantageous or disadvantageous, people are just horny enough that it doesn’t matter and gets passed on.
What happens with your body after the age your ancestors procreated has nothing to do with evolutionary advantage.
I’m assuming OP’s a man as I don’t know any women this has happened to. Men can make babies their whole life, not like women who go through menopause. I know a guy that’s 70, his wife is 30 and their son is 9.
All that to say, it’s still a little odd this unattractive trait strikes men who can, and often are, looking for mates and making babies.
40 year age gap is nuts. Did they seriouslybdo it for luv?
“Unattractive” is highly culturally specific though. Ear hair is so strongly correlated with testosterone levels, there’s gotta be some people that think it’s virile and attractive.
Like most things, it’s an accident, a side-effect, a mutation. And, it doesn’t offer any disadvantage that kills you before you have a chance to mate.
So it continues on, because it doesn’t matter.
Damn. Some people get laser vision or can shoot fire.
My mutant powers is thicker ear hair.
Tickle your wife’s nose as she whispers in your ear?
Every year my head hair grows slower and my everywhere else hair grows quicker.
It makes you irresistable to women, thus propagating your blood line.
Senescent cells emit growth factors. Hair cells divide. More hair in your ear.
It’s just aging. Not advantageous per se, but species’ lifespan is adapted to their ecosystem.
Perhaps it is an advantage to feel more sensitive with ear and nose hair, while your eyesight deteriorates.
Ouch dude
Thanks for reminding me, I guess
Maybe not evolutionary advantage, but vestigial origin. Maybe a feature that is in the middle of development / disappearing.
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If a change is easier than not and offers no disadvantage it’s likely to happen.
Evolution is just a lot of tweak-pair-check if it actually works and reproduces not something thst actually has goals or intents
At a certain age your ears have heard enough bullshit and it’s time to start enjoying life.
Man. I hit that age around 7 years old. They told me PeeWee Herman wasn’t going to be on TV anymore because he had fun in a movie theater. Tried asking why that was wrong. No adult would tell me. So I put two and two together and decided that this world is pissing me off.
To be fair, I’m 41, and stand by that to this day. PeeWee did nothing wrong, even AFTER knowing the full story.
You have moved into the decline phase. You have shot your shot, and you’re out of evolutionary competition.
Gah! Everyone keeps saying this. One more time and I’ll leave it alone; men seek mates and can make babies their entire lives.
I had my first kid at 42, another at 45. Know a guy that’s 70 with a 9-yo.
There’s no need to make tgis personal.
Also your car smells funny.
It’s basically your body aging and breaking down, which leads to hormone imbalances and the like. Tons of stuff our bodies do doesn’t have an evolutionary advantage, it’s just that it’s not really a big disadvantage for the survival of your genes.
But it started at 21 😭😭
You made it to 21? Humblebrag
ok but like if you’re growing up under increasingly fascist America it seriously is an accomplishment. Especially if you’re queer or ESPECIALLY trans. Trans people have a 50% rate of attempted suicide by 18 and that’s not even counting in deaths from other sources. or even from the current year (which I imagine has gone up a LOT)
A number that is seriously high for no reason.
In that case, it’s clearly because ear hair really got the early human women going. Rawr!
