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How to Talk About Hair Like a Scientist

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Is There a Difference Between Black and White Hair?

The way we usually talk about hair morphology is in categorical terms of straight, wavy, curly. The texture that you have on the crown of your head or the back of your head might also be completely different. It really captures this feedback loop we have between science and society when it comes to race. Like how these terms become racialized. And it's a reminder that we have all this variation within the human species.

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