Male pattern baldness is a defense mechanism against scalping.
I was reading “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen E. Ambrose and there have been a few sections involving dudes getting scalped and I remembered a bit cobbler mentioned in one of the YeeHaw videos.
Putting bounties on dudes scalps is wild because how are you gonna verify you have the right guy’s scalp? By the sounds of it, they didn’t bother to check. So surely guys were just scalping the first person they ran into and saying it was the bounty. I have to imagine some of these bounty hunters didn’t even know what their bounties looked like.
My new insane history theory is that male pattern baldness evolved in American Europeans specifically to defend against being scalped by some guy just looking to get paid asap.
Obviously this is a schizophrenia induced delusion but it crossed my mind while I was reading and couldn’t help but laugh about it.
Thank you.