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As you get older everything gets hairier and closer to the ground. If we lived long enough we’d end up as a shagpile carpet.I think the question misunderstands evolution a little bit. Not every human trait confers evolutionary advantage. Some traits are just the byproduct of something, such as excess testosterone in the case of hair.Probably sexual selection, hairy men being preferred as sexual partners by women and/or less hairy women being preferred by men.

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