will we lose all of our hair permanently in the future due to global warming?

Answer 1

Unfortunately if Global warming exsists as it seems to ..and remains uncurtailed we will be losing a lot more than hair.

Answer 2

Evolution works by making those who have "mutations" or characteristics that favor their general likelihood of day to day survival (predators etc) or their likely hood of finding a mate and reproducing stay behind while the others as a gene pool (not individuals) die out. In the past even a slight change can give certain species a huge advantage over others due to the primitive nature of life on the planet.

But right now, at least for human beings, at an age where even more serious medical conditions (compared to hairiness) are treated and is no longer a decisive factor for that strain of genes are passed on to the next generations or not.

Even if baldness is a decisive factor in surviving global warming, don't forget that we humans have the means to alter the state of being hairy or bald right now. It is not the same case for lets say a particular bird that has a certain shape of beak that could prevent it from picking the available food.

Answer 3

Global warming is happening faster than human evolution. So, it will not have much impact. An argument could be made that we are going "hairless". As descendants from apes, we certainly have less hair than them and other animals. Due to the fact that we make and wear clothes is the reason. We can change our "coats" at will, therefore we can inhabit a greater variety of climates. This is one advantage we have over lower animals. We can even go so far as inhabit outer space, where no animals, except for maybe microbes, can survive at all. Other animals are limited to specific climates that they have adapted too. Some people suggest that the hairless look of Greys, (typical space aliens) is the result of an evolutionary form suited for space travel. A logical, but certainly far reaching hypothesis.

Answer 4

No. What made you think that could be?

Any small change in the general layout of the human body has to provide a reproductive advantage to those with it, for that mutation to take hold in the human genome. Given that lack of hair is essentially neutral from the point of view of making someone more attractive -- some people are attracted to hairless head, some are actually put off by them -- there is no force in action to make lack of hair more desirable.

Further, global warming is occurring at a rate that is far faster than the time it takes for a mutation to spread, and besides, we are using air conditioner. If lack of hair would procure an advantage because of the heat, then people might start by wearing less clothes to reduce the effect of heat.

Answer 5

the realationship between going bald and global warming is not there, one does not directly relate to the other, however i think that global warming is a problem that we face, baldness is affected things such as genes mostly and also little things like wearing a hat a lot, that stifles your hair folicals and they slowly suffocate over time

Answer 6

Maybe not due to global warming. But if we evolve to lose what little hair we have, I say fine. Not enough women shave their heads voluntarily, and it's such a stunning look for them!

Answer 7

I think we will lose more than our hair. This could be seen as a good thing though... some people are really hairy (how DO they stay cool on hot summer days?)

Answer 8

Actually the hair does have a cooling effect sometimes (cooling coils) So the connection is not there.

Answer 9

Only if warm air becomes a depilatory.

Answer 10

I don't see the connection. Is it an advantage to be bald in hot weather?