Big hair? Bald? How much difference your hair really makes to keep you cool or warm
- Written by: Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
ShutterstockWe have millions of hair follicles on our body, including around 100,000 on our scalp.
This might sound like a lot of hair, yet humans are described as “hairless”. We have evolved to be the only mammals with a relatively hairless body, but still with scalp hair.
So how does your hair affect your body temperature when...
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