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Evolution and baldness.

Maybe Evolution
My theory to why man develops a bad blood supply to the scalp may have something to do with evolution.
Were humans brought to this earth fully formed, as told in the Bible? Do humans share an ancestor with apes?
I believe in the second theory.
The oldest fossil evidence shows fourteen million years ago Ramapithecus, looked like this (Figure A). Some people now think that they were more closely related to orang-utans than to any other apes.
Ramapithecus 14 million years ago was first found in india, and named after Rama, a Hindu god and Piteous, the Greek for monkey. Then we Came across a fossil gap. Fossils have not been found for the period between 8-4 million years ago. One such theory which is possible is that much of the land was covered in shallow seas and some apes might have adapted to their new habitat by taking to the water in search of food and shelter. This theory could explain why fossils found after the gap have features which humans do not share with other primates, such as little body hair, a layer of fat under the skin and breath control under water, all of which are very helpful when swimming.

Next Came AUSTRALOPITHECUS (“southern ape”). They Walked upright and used bones and stones as tools. They shared some features with gorillas and chimpanzees and it is thought that the split between apes and hominids happened now.
Next Came HOMO HABILIS (“handy man”). These early humans Walked upright and used tools to make other tools.
HOMO ERECTUS (“upright man”). Homo erectus probably first evolved in Africa and South East Asia, and then moved northwards to Europe and North Asia. The skull shape differs greatly in the different places where they have been found. This might be the result of evolution, or it may be because some of the specimens belong to a slightly different group.
HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS
Neanderthals had larger brains than modern man, lived in shelters and caves, had some form of speech and conducted Ceremonies such as burying their dead. (l would say that it was about this time when man started to lose scalp hair). They lived mostly in Europe and the Middle East, before and during the last ice age, about 100,000 years ago.
Modern humans may have evolved from some neanderthals between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago, or neanderthals died out 30,000 years ago. And man evolved from some homo erectus who lived in different areas to the neanderthals.
HOIVIO SAPIENS SAPIENS (Wise man)
The earliest fossils date to about 40,000 years ago for modern humans. So what has this got to do with baldness? Australopithecus had a brain size of 400 cubic Centimetres.