The Guardian ·
20 fascinating facts about hair: why baldness is super-masculine – and a pubic bush could be a ‘cheating detector’
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- This article explores the evolutionary biology and historical significance of human hair, drawing on research by author Judy Wearing. It discusses how various hair features, such as eyebrows, body odor, and male pattern baldness, serve evolutionary functions in communication, mate selection, and social interaction.
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Sign in to give feedbackJudy Wearing has spent much of her life studying our follicles. She explains how our armpits betray our emotions, why some gentlemen really do prefer blondes and the reason we evolved to have eyebrows
As a PhD student at Oxford studying mating behaviour, Judy Wearing was suddenly struck by a thought: what was the purpose of pubic hair? The point of armpit hair? The function of each of our body’s furry patches? When the published literature failed to produce satisfying answers, Wearing began her own investigation. Her aim was to shed light on why exactly we evolved these particular patches, with pubic hair the most puzzling of all: was it for warmth, protection … or something else?
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