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This chapter explores the biological significance and functions of hair in mammals, detailing its composition and structure. It highlights the differences between human hair and that of other animals, including discussions on fur and wool.

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If you are listening to me speak these words and can understand what I’m saying, then you are a human being.
If you are a human being, you are also a mammal, and if you are a mammal, you have hair….or at least the biological capability to produce hair.

But why exactly do we have hair? What function does it serve? Why do we have less than other animals? And why do people have different types of hair?

Learn more about hair, what it does, and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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