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Letter: Baldness doesn't confer any disadvantages

Published 1 November 2017

From James Fradgley, Ashington, Dorset, UK

Exploring why humans are “so scarily hairy”, you say “pity the human male”, who must “suffer the indignity of a receding hairline” (7 October, p 41). Baldness is a normal male thing and doesn't, in my experience, confer any disadvantages. Please don't let your values intrude.

Issue no. 3150 published 4 November 2017

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