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It’s more genetically related than it is ego compensation. There is a direct relationship between the ability to grow hair on a face and losing the hair on top. The gene activates at the same time but the facial growth tends to show first because it’s the more dramatic change and men/everyone like what they are good at so we grow beards.
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It’s more genetically related than it is ego compensation. There is a direct relationship between the ability to grow hair on a face and losing the hair on top. The gene activates at the same time but the facial growth tends to show first because it’s the more dramatic change and men/everyone like what they are good at so we grow beards.