There have been many famous academic beards:Hippocrates,Louis Pasteur,Charles Darwin and David Bellamy,to name but a few.This led to the question:do great achievers tend to grow beards,or are beards a cause of success? Or,are there more fundamental and persistent reasons why men indulge in face furniture?Evolution of facial hair Man has been referred to as the naked ape.There are several hypotheses to explain why humans evolved with decreasing amounts of body hair.
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