Show WHY WOMEN ARE NOT BALD natural selection theba from fro the Preval liag i if th tha unsatisfactory stat latka that I 1 have hate been able to collect can be relied on the proportion of baldness in boys and girls under twenty is i about eighty to seven says bays miss E P andre andrew andres s in the popular science monthly As the majo majority ity of girls at the age under consideration wear their hair loose or in simple marguerite Marguer iW braids so that there is little likelihood of deception while I 1 unwholesome in holesome headgear or other individual practices can hardly as yeti yet have bad time to produce any material effect upon either sex we may regard the dif iii I ference indicated by the figures as practically due to the working of heredity alone now there them is no apparent reason why girls should not inherit a tendency to baldness as well as boys unless that tendency is checked by some other f tao tor such a factor is sexual selection I 1 for I 1 presume it is hardly necessary to argue here that a bald beaded woman would not stand much chance of sur ur vival in the struggle for matrimonial is honors As men have bare always practically done the selecting an and d will probably continue to do so BO more and more as the conditions of modern life 1 render the competition for husbands more severe the womans comans voice in the matter when she has any being limited to a simple negative it in ia not likely that the state of baldness to which the human race is said to be tending will ever affect the minine feminine half of it |