Why Do We Have Beards? While Beards Are Completely Biologically Useless

Unlike other hair types -they have their own functions.

Have you ever wondered why we have beards? In fact, scientists have shown that beards are not a biological trait of the body the way we thought for many years. Beard is like an ornamental plant.

Out of all the biological features of the human body, including other types of hair, only beard has no function and has only decorative meaning. That means it doesn’t actually function or perform any specific physiological effects. Let’s take a look at the remaining hairs on our body.

Body hair helps to regulate temperature. The hair on the head helps to protect the scalp from the sun and helps keep it warm in cold weather. Eyelashes help protect your eyes from insects or strange objects that can come in when you open them. The eyebrows help prevent sweat from flowing into the eyes. Armpit hair helps reduce friction when moving hands and keeps sweat from escaping. Genital hairs help protect against bacteria and also help reduce friction.

But beards do not have any specific effect. So why do they exist, and why only exist in men?

In the early days of beard research, evolutionary biologists thought that beards could have the same effects as…