Did ancient Hawaiians have facial hair?”
…did have some sparse facial hair to almost none. Typically they chose not to allow it to grow as it was too thin to add much to the appearance. This is similar to other groups with Asian genetics. The Hawaiians had thick, dark,wavy hair on the head that turned gray only late in life. Balding was relatively rare. They are considered Polynesian (rather than Melanesian or Micronesian) of Asian origin in the long-run, but by way of Peru, north-west America, southeast Asia, Japan, India and even China due to physical and cultural affinities. Supposedly this hair growth pattern is a cold-adapted trait that dates from very distant ancestors (back in the Ice Age). Later dispersal throughout the Pacific Islands by multiple pathways through Asia and the Americas did not select against these traits and so they remained. As one anthropologist says of the origin of Asian features: “small groups in central Asia developed at end of last Ice Age developed through natural selection straight black ha
