May
23
/ 2020
A new study has provided an evolutionary reason for beards - to reduce the impact of punches. This explains why men grow facial hair while most women do not. But before we begin, if the findings of this new scientific study are correct, we now know why Connor MacGregor, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight champion, took so many blows to the chin and went on to destroy almost everyone who stepped into the ring with him. Was his secret weapon his beard? Beards, Evolution’s Hairy Shock Absorber At the top of the list of “ sexual dimorphisms”, which describe the most predominant physical differences between human males and females, is facial hair. But until now scientists
