2006-12-25 10:45:27 · 5 answers · asked by CHARLES B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
to keep out bugs
2006-12-25 10:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by saltydunes24 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in evolution, then the following might be a good guess. From an evolutionary standpoint, people are not supposed to live this long. Testosterone makes hair grow in ears. There is no need for it, but the body is failing in old age and behaving in ways that nature never intended. From nature's point of view, you are supposed to be dead already. In some cases we live for 4 or 5 decades longer than nature would expect. The fittest are in our younger years. Everything else is waste. Most animals don't live long past their reproductive years. Why should we?
2006-12-25 19:10:23 · answer #2 · answered by Jack 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
From an evolutionary standpoint, everything that happens to you after your reproductive years is irrelevant. That's why all kinds of random and bad stuff happens, like Alzheimers and other Neurodegenerative diseases.
There is no selection against it.
2006-12-25 23:54:51 · answer #3 · answered by Ejsenstejn 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe,to block bugs from entring in the ear at old age.
2006-12-25 18:51:09 · answer #4 · answered by sandwreckoner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the bodies adaptation to the lack of production of wax, (or, adaptation throughout the marriage process)
2006-12-25 18:52:44
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