Thread:A Heroic Smurf/@comment-26171965-20171015100647/@comment-5571486-20171015171013

Baldness was very common in the dark ages. The reason being was that many of the taxes included hair and beard growth. This is why peasants were usually shaven, or why the monks in monasteries were balding as part of their humble lifestyle.

Back on the subject of the Smurfs, their anatomy is different from humans, regardless of magic spells or temporary form changes. Since Smurfs have longer lifespans, their cells do not die as quickly as humans. Hair growth is known to be the dead cell rooting out of certain areas of tissue, hence why the body is usually covered in small hairs, including the scalp. The average Smurf begins to grow a beard roughly around their 400s (i.e. Papa Smurf with his brown beard during the time the Smurfs were babies, acknowledging the Smurfs are 100 now with Papa Smurf being in his 500s with a white beard.)

With this information, we can see in any race wether human or humanoid such as elf, pixie, or smurf, balding is common as one ages. Hence, why Smurfs don't grow hair but beards only. (i.e. Smurfquest where the Smurfs aged slowly with mustaches and then beards. No hair on the scalp was present.

There are exclusive Smurfs with hair however, and this is a case of magic. (Hackus, and the Smurfettes who do not exist since they are magically created.)

To conclude this seminar, a bald human Brainy Smurf is not unrealistic.