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Hair Variation, What’s Her Story? (ICYMI) with Dr. Tina Lasisi

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Curly Hair Protects Your Head From the Sun Better Than Straight Hair

If you have a big, beautiful afro, that can help protect your head from the sun much better than straight hair. So tightly curled hair, like humans have, I've never seen it in any other species. What animals do you know with curly hair? Poodles. How perfect is that? But their hair isn't curly, it's crimped. She has crimped hair. And so it's that bilateral wave. It's fundamentally different than human curls.

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