Totally Random Question!

No clue, but my dad had very little body hair (I grew more leg hair) and he had 6 daughters, 1 son. My brother could grow more facial hair than my dad, but not a ton.

My husband has less body hair than his dad, but still has dark, thick hair EVERYWHERE. My FIL has a back like his chest, my husband's back is less hairy. However, he grows the most amazing mountain man beard every winter. My 6 month old has obvious thick dustings of hair all over. I hope it isn't phasing out, but it might just be genetic/hereditary and depend on which side is more dominant.

Well... for one... a lot of young men wax.

For two, native american, southeast asian, and a few other (including a few spots in european gene pool) ethnicities have almost no body hair at all. Our country is predominantly MUTT. Hair alleles are a BLENDED trait. Meaning not just recessive or dominant, but a lot of factors go into it. Start mixing some 'no hair' genes in with some 'super hairy' genes, and you'll get some super hairy, some no hair, and a LOT of "some" hair.

Really, though. I strongly suspect waxing.

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How funny!! The "hair thing" is hereditary...and also "regional"...arm and leg hair date back centuries...the "hairy" you were/are - it was harder for mosquitoes, etc. to bother you because your body felt the insect land on the arm or leg....

Not sure where their chest hair is!!! LOL!!! Good question! it might be phasing out...

my husband has SOME chest hair - I would prefer him to wax it because it's that sparse!!! He also has it on the upper back of his arms - and I would love that to be gone!! Thank God it's not on his back!! That just isn't for me!!!

I wonder if your doctor would know the answer to this...it's a good question!!!

LOL!! I needed that. None of the men in my family are all that hairy and the men in my husbands aren't either. Gray hair early runs in my husbands family. Hes been completely gray for about 5 years and hes only 37. Great question though.

HAhaha! I have no idea, but yeah where did it all go? I don't mind a little hair, but covered. Nah, we can keep it hidden in that case.

My first husband, at 22, was hairy everywhere but balding on top! Next husband (35), hardly any hair on his body, but could grow it thick and long on his head to make a woman jealous. My guy now (57) is very hairy all over but bald. Both of my brothers (52 and 51) have hairless chests, one started balding at 30, the other not.

I think you just are looking at a limited sample!

Well, my guy, who is 55, has hair in places he def didn't have when he was 27. So maybe, give it some time and your boys will eventually resemble their Neanderthal linage after all?

tehehe

:)

My dad got more than the handfull of chest hair after he turned 40... about the time he started loosing it on top of his head.

My brothers have bearly any chest hair.. and are starting to thin out on top. Wonder if they will start to get hairy also as they get older.

My uncles are about 50/50 with only chest hair/ chest and back hair. Yuck!!

Only one of my cousins have back hair and he waxes it.