why do we have hair?

Question

I want to know why women have hair on their legs?? Men have hair but on their chasts and backs and stuff. But why do women have hair just on their legs, armpits and you knwo where lol..... why aren't women as hairy as men? We still have some so why not as much?

well it's nice to be called an Idiot! thanks x

Answer 1

Hair serves many purposes, gemwi. It often depends on which portion of the body you're referring to. For example, the hair on our heads - what we usually associate with the word "hair" - serves the purpose of protecting our sensitive scalps from excessive UV radiation. Hair breaks up the photons before they hit our skin, allowing for a decrease in UV absorption and subsequently a decrease in skin disease such as cancer.

Hair in areas such as the armpits have been theorized to aid in pheromone expression. Our sweat glands underneath our armpits (and other areas of the body) release pheromones that attract the opposite sex. By having hair near these sweat glands, it allows an organism to trap the sweat and subsequent pheromones - sort of like a perfumed cloth.

Hair in areas such as near the genitalia, nose, and eyes (eyebrows and eyelashes) prevent particles from entering our orifices! Eyebrows serve very well to prevent sweat from entering our eyes. Eyelashes prevent foreign particles from entering our eyes, nose hairs do the same for the nose and respiratory track, and pubic hair does the same for our genital opening.

Hair on the arms and legs also serves the purpose of detecting air currents and motion. Many organisms have these - not just humans. Organisms that are only vaguely related to us too! Spiders have long hairs on all of their legs, including specialized trichobothria (long hairs!) that help detect air currents. We're not much different from other animals, in reality.

Answer 2

We all have hair all over our bodies. Some is very fine, other is transparent, some is very coarse. These hairs make it easier to feel things that touch us.

For example a woman that shaves her legs cannot feel a mosquito land while a man can.

There are some countries that women don't shave their arm pits or legs.

Maybe this is what God wanted us to have.

As far as the pubic, head, chest, armpits, head, eyelashes, eyebrows, etc. They each have a purpose, or are related to the hormones or race they we are.

The eyelashes for example help to keep particles out of our eyes.
And the list goes on.

Answer 3

Hair serves an important purpose for humans. It serves a defense mechanism of sorts and helps control your body temperature.

The hair around your eyes, ears, and nose prevent foreign particles, such as dust or dirt, from entering the body. Eyebrows reduce the amount of light that enter our eyes and helps prevent sweat from getting into your eyes.

The hair also helps with your sense of touch. This is why all skin surfaces possess hair in varying degrees of thickness except on thick areas of skin such as the palms of the hand and soles of the feet.

Hair also keeps you warm. When you feel cold, the hair stands up and creates extra insulation that makes your temperature rise slightly higher. It also traps air next to our body, which helps reduce heat loss.

Answer 4

Not all women have hair on their legs. The most feminine women have hair only on the scalp with a trace of hair in their armits and on their genitals.

Facial and also body hair on women comes about in the same way as on men because of

1) your body being sensitized, before you were even born, to testosterone -- doesn't happen to all girls, but does to many

2) your body producing high levels of testosterone

The growth rate and coarseness of the hair depends on just how much testosterone is circulating in your bloodstream.

So facial and body hair is a measure of masculinity. The more masculine you are, the more you have.

Answer 5

Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of dead cells from the skin, found only on mammals. Although many other life forms, especially insects, show filamentous outgrowths, these are not considered "hair" regarding the accepted meaning of the term.

The primary component of hair fiber is keratin. Keratins are proteins, long chains (polymers) of amino acids. Keratin proteins form the cytoskeleton (miniature skeleton within a cell) of all epidermal cells. Keratin filaments run within a cell from the inside of the outer membrane to weave a "basket" around the nucleus of the cell. Keratins are a principle part of the cells in the epidermis, hair, nails, feathers, hooves, horny tissues and the enamel of teeth.

In some species, it is absent at certain stages of life. It projects from the epidermis, though it grows from hair follicles deep in the dermis. So-called "hairs" (trichomes) are also found on plants. The projections on arthropods, such as insects and spiders are actually insect bristles. The hair of non-human species is commonly referred to as fur. There are varieties of cats, dogs, and mice bred to have little or no visible fur

Answer 6

probably cause of how a long time ago when we use to live outside all the time and men were the hunters so they probably needed more hair to help keep them warm while hunting and stuff and its just gradually going away because of how we dont need that much body hair anymore

somptin like dat

Answer 7

yea it warms the body and when its in ur nose and like ur eyelashes keep stuff from going in it and i think men have more hair b/c its a testorne thing

Answer 8

Women have more hair on our heads because babies cling to mommies' hair. I remember reading that testosterone is directly proportional to body hair, except for head hair, where it is indirectly proportional. How exactly or why testosterone does that, I do not know.

Answer 9

we have hair simply to regulate the body's temperature by drawing water/moisture away from the skin into the air where it can dry.

Or...

Women have less hair cause your just too damn sexy for it!

Answer 10

Hair cools and warms the body.

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