Baldness may mean virility, at least in later life. This hypothesis was baldly put forward by Anatomist James B. Hamilton of Yale, with detailed evidence. Hamilton himself has a goodly thatch of brown hair, but he is only 32.
Hamilton examined the heads of a group of 54 men who had failed to mature sexually or were rendered sexless by accident. Not one of them was bald, though 43% of normal men lose much of their hair in middle age. The unmasculine also had much less dandruff than normal men.
When male sex hormones...
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