Trivia: Monkey and Baldness

• Chris
  September 29th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

  Isn’t it rather :
  Humans also suffer from male pattern baldness like monkeys do
  ?

• LOLWTF
  September 29th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

  Chris u evolutionist, DIE

• Mark
  September 29th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

  I think baldness is just one of natures markers for identification purposes. I don’t fall for the hair replacement industries advertising and marketing rave that baldness is something to be ashamed about, it’s not.

• Johnald_Chaffinch
  September 29th, 2007 at 11:42 pm

  generally it does signal for less attraction from females. thus the comb-over!

• XuYu
  September 30th, 2007 at 12:05 am

  minoxidil worked for the monkeys, but not for me…

• Sendev
  September 30th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

  Minoxidil is the perfect drug of choice not only for monkeys but also for Kangaroos and Zebra’s. But I am wondering why it is not curing human baldness effectively(may be sex-linked chromosomes).

• Thom
  October 1st, 2007 at 5:33 pm

  I think humans are the only ones that “suffer” from baldness.

• al
  February 9th, 2008 at 3:29 am

  yea the “genetic” component in baldness doesn’t necissarily mean inherited,although it could be . the sv 40 virus monkeys carry can alter genes/ that’s genetic too .the virus is now known to have been inadvertantly transmitted to humans during the early polio vaccination program. it would be an interesting statistical studdy to see if the occurence of male pattern baldness in humans has been on the rise since say about 1975 or so. ” monkeys also suffer male pattern baldness too” maybe its a viral cause , i wonder

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