What’s the point of beards?

Charles Darwin—a man who is usually pictured sporting sideburns or a massive beard—famously suggested that male facial hair is like a peacock’s tail, “an ornament to charm or excite the opposite sex.”As brilliant a scientist as he was, Darwin may not have been entirely right.Do beards and mustaches make men more attractive?In a study published in 2012, researchers asked women from two very different ethnic groups, Europeans from New Zealand and Polynesians from Samo