What is acne?  No seriously, what is it?  Why does it happen? What is the medical definition.  How do I remedy something when I don’t have a good definition of what exactly it is? Darwin asserts of survival of the fittest, how does acne help us survive?  So I went to the Mayo Clinic web site  and tried to figure out what acne is and how exactly it forms.

The site says there are many types of acne.  Some are formed from hair follicles clog, some are formed when the hair follicles are infected or inflamed, some are formed when beneath the surface of the skin the hair follicles get buildups and finally there were the cist type of acne which the site equated to “boil like infections.”  Ok, I’m glad I looked it up, but now I really am wondering about Darwin . 

If facial hair is being faded out evolutionarily speaking (at least for women) then how is this evolutionarily adaptive?  Previously man kind was hairy.  Now mankind has less hair but those follicles are creating acne.  Perhaps the next step in evolution is to get rid of hair follicles all together, at least the ones on our face, I’d like to keep my head of hair.  Already we don’t have hair on our palms..so maybe we are part way there!