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Show NOT DUE TO CIVILIZATION Investigator Denies That Baldness Comes as a Result of Habits of Modern Man. Shedding the hair of the head is port of the present evolution of civilized civil-ized humanity, claims Dr. Ales Hrdlleka, of the Smithsonian institution, institu-tion, who has made an extensive anthropological an-thropological study of Americans whoso ancestors have lived at least three generations on this continent. It would be wrong to-blame the re- duced vitality shown by the hair on any particular habits of civilized man or on disease conditions. These may play a part, he says, but the real causers hereditary. The hair tends toward an earlier senility and loss beeuuse It has become of less use tt: man living under modern conditions condi-tions than It was In the past. Nature does not tolerate for long what has become useless or weakened. It Is the men who ore getting bald, he finds. Women lose hair, too, h8 says, but not nearly so rapidly as the males. He iH Hure the women, do not mislead him, as all of them were ex-amlned ex-amlned with their hair undone and freely hanging down. Although Doctor Hrdlh-ka explains the predisposition to baldness among males to Inheritance, Inherit-ance, he adds Words of woe to the flapper by explaining that the reason women have longerclinglng lmlr Is that "possibly the weight of the female fe-male hair acts as a tonic."-Sdenee Srvi-e. |
