I think it's ugly having hair over your eyes!!!
2007-04-28 18:05:37 · 25 answers · asked by DiSTuRBeR 45 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
I think the biological reason is to prevent dirt and sweat From our foreheads from getting into our eyes and irritating them!
2007-04-28 18:07:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The main function of the eyebrows is to prevent moisture, mostly salty sweat and rain, from flowing into the eye, an organ critical to survival. The typical curved shape of the eyebrow (with a slant on the side) and the direction in which eyebrow hairs are pointed, make sure that moisture has a tendency to flow sideways around the eyes, along the side of the head and along the nose. The slightly protruding brow ridges of modern humans could also still play a supporting role in this process. Together with the eyebrows, the brow ridges also shade the eyes from sunlight.
Eyebrows also prevent debris such as dandruff and other small objects from falling into the eyes, as well as providing a more sensitive sense for detecting objects being near the eye, like small insects.
Eyebrows also have an important facilitary function in communication, strengthening expressions like surprise or anger.
The crab louse can be found in "eyebrows".
2007-04-29 01:54:35 · answer #2 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Siri had a pretty good answer for you, but let me expand on it a bit. They do help protect the eyes, and that's the reason furry creatures have them.
But with humans they also have a function in communications. They are an important part of our facial expressions. If we raise one eyebrow, that implies a question. If we raise both that implies surprise. If they sort of come together that means we are angry.
If you don't like your eyebrows you have a feminine prerogative of plucking them to reduce their sized and then using an eyebrow pencil to highlight them and make them a sexy addition to your face. Us guys have to be satisfied with getting them trimmed when we visit the barber.
Other than the fact that as I age my eyebrows seem to be stealing most of the hair from the top of my head I like having eyebrows.
And I agree, they are sexy.
2007-04-29 01:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To protect our eyes and the bone above.
The bone above our eyes (seen in males - evolution - to protect eye during hunting) The eye brow acts like a cushion.
The falling small, light objects from the head or hair on the head get trapped in the eyebrows.
2007-05-01 03:37:58 · answer #4 · answered by dipakrashmi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they are to keep running water out of our eyes in the rain, but there are a lot of people you shave off their eyebrows and end up having to get hair transplant surgery to replace what they did. Eyebrows can be trimmed beautifully, but I find that if you don't do anything but rub them in the direction of the hair it will turn out nice.
2007-04-29 01:09:37 · answer #5 · answered by Heero Yui 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our eyebrows act as sort of a filter, so that we can have a better chance of preventing any kind of eye infection that could be contracted through the air. Sort of the same reason we have pubic hair.
2007-04-29 01:11:04 · answer #6 · answered by Stephy B. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that eye brows are actually to protect your eyes just like eyelashes. I think that we would love pretty funny with out eyebrows.
2007-04-29 01:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Protect your eyes. Eyelashes protect them from the wind and eyebrows help with dirt and small particles from forehead
2007-04-29 01:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by grainy33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It keeps the sweat from your brow from getting in your eyes. They play an important function. Ever got sweat in your eyes? Stings like crazy.
2007-04-29 01:08:25 · answer #9 · answered by sticky 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To keep things out of our eyes
2007-04-29 01:07:49 · answer #10 · answered by Panda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋