As I’ve gotten older, I mean.
Before people ripped my ear-hairs out, because whites apparently find it intolerable for another to have them ( my skin’s white, I’m 1/4 east-Indian )
it used to be possible to feel the slightest breeze, someone opening a door or window to a house/apartment I was in, or any similar thing.
Massive & unusual sense that people ripped out from my life.
I’ve only short ones, now, & it’s a bit like being deaf, to breezes, in comparison.
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Evolution doesn’t quite work like that. Traits aren’t always selected for/against, we have a ton of traits that we’re ambivalent enough about to pass on, like eye color and ear hair. It’s neither advantageous or disadvantageous, people are just horny enough that it doesn’t matter and gets passed on.
What happens with your body after the age your ancestors procreated has nothing to do with evolutionary advantage.
I’m assuming OP’s a man as I don’t know any women this has happened to. Men can make babies their whole life, not like women who go through menopause. I know a guy that’s 70, his wife is 30 and their son is 9.
All that to say, it’s still a little odd this unattractive trait strikes men who can, and often are, looking for mates and making babies.
40 year age gap is nuts. Did they seriouslybdo it for luv?
“Unattractive” is highly culturally specific though. Ear hair is so strongly correlated with testosterone levels, there’s gotta be some people that think it’s virile and attractive.
Like most things, it’s an accident, a side-effect, a mutation. And, it doesn’t offer any disadvantage that kills you before you have a chance to mate.
So it continues on, because it doesn’t matter.
Damn. Some people get laser vision or can shoot fire.
My mutant powers is thicker ear hair.
It gives us old farts something to talk about, reinforcing the community of elder carers in the tribe, and thus the health of the tribe.
That’s bollocks, by the way. All I know is that it’s fucking weird when you have to shave your ear lobes.
It’s head hair being excreted out yoir ears. Takes time to work its way down, like medival glass slumping.
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Tickle your wife’s nose as she whispers in your ear?
Every year my head hair grows slower and my everywhere else hair grows quicker.
It makes you irresistable to women, thus propagating your blood line.
Senescent cells emit growth factors. Hair cells divide. More hair in your ear.
It’s just aging. Not advantageous per se, but species’ lifespan is adapted to their ecosystem.
Bullshit filters.
Perhaps it is an advantage to feel more sensitive with ear and nose hair, while your eyesight deteriorates.
Ouch dude
Thanks for reminding me, I guess
“The reason is I made it the fuck up!”
–Your body
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