why are East Asian men less hairy?
In: Biology
No, it is not that East Asian men are less hairy, it is that Europeans are more hairy. Human originated from Africa and adapted to different continents, I don’t think our ancestors in Africa are hairy (I don’t think African today are hairy). So hairy is a gained feature in Europeans, not the other way around.
However, there is a hair adaptation in Asian (*EDARV370A*). But what it does is make hair thicker: [https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(13)00067-6](https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(13)00067-6)
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