2007-12-10 08:36:41 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, 3 you don't even know me
2007-12-10 08:43:42 · update #1
Funny, dinks like by 3 hate your question, and the fundamentalist hate it. No one seems to have their eye open.
2007-12-10 09:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people have covered these. Arm pit hair is a sign of sexual maturity. Also, hair traps scent (anyone with long hair who goes into a smokey bar knows what I mean) and the smell of sweat can attract a potential mate. I tihnk there was just a recent story on Yahoo about women being attracted to the smell of a man's sweat.
I don't think it helps that much with friction, since most Asian women have very little body hair - including the arm pit and pubic area.
Of course, this was much more useful back when Ug from Pangea was trying to find a mate. We're a bit more sophisticated now. But since the human species has only existed for a blip in the history of the planet, we haven't evolved away from "useless" things like pit hair, the appendix, the coccyx, etc.
2007-12-10 08:54:08 · answer #2 · answered by sandand_surf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is intriguing! Evolutionists don't NEED a reason for something to be there, they just expect a mechanism to explain why something that appeared (usually as a mutation) is perpetuated in future generations.
In the case of pit-hair, it seems highly probable that early "humans" were very hairy indeed, but that such furriness did not provide any protection over bugs, cold, damp or mestitunity that the smart Homo erectus brain could not figure for itself; consequently a bald fellow or lass could pass along that gene without impacting the population negatively. Whatever the mutation was, it did'n'e include the pits or the groinly area...
2007-12-10 09:06:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Lubrication. Now that we are wearing cloths most of the time, your shirt effectively does the same thing. And it is largely vestigial from our hair covered ancestors.
Note: evolution doesn't require everything have a current point. Only that it had one once, or at least it doesn't interfere with your survival. If you want to point out things that don't really work anymore (like your inner eyelids) that is predicted by evolution, but not by creationism. It would be pretty dumb for a designer to include things that don't function for us, but do in say a house cat.
2007-12-10 08:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It helps radiate heat from the body. A lot of blood flows past that point and a lot of heat can be lost thru the armpit. The hair helps to spread this heat out and let the body cool faster. This is especially true when the hair has a lot of sweat in it.
2007-12-10 08:41:22 · answer #5 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Arm pit hair makes a nice, soft little bed for my pet hamster, Mr. Fluffy Flufferson, the 3rd.
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And BTW .... I have a huge dead fish rotting in my back yard, and I plan on delivering it to 3's house, later this week.... I know some people who can "take care" of him ....
2007-12-10 08:51:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why did God give people arm pit hair?
If these are the kind of asinine things you use to dismiss modern science... I feel sorry for you.
EDIT: I know enough about you to make the comment I did. You're in the religion section, and addressing "evolutionists". This tells me you're a creationist fundie, or you're a troll making fun of creationists.
2007-12-10 08:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Lubrication (prevents the arms from chafing against the torso, allows for quicker, stronger movements without damaging the underarm skin).
Same as one of the purposes for increased sweat production under the arms (the other is for odor retention, which is for pheremonal sexual signals).
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Of course, we also need to consider the explanation that we are made in God's image, and there's something perfect and holy about sweaty, greasy tufts of smelly hair under the arms that He felt the need to replicate in us.
2007-12-10 08:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Puberty happens for human beings at diverse cases. i did no longer start up till i became 17. do no longer hassle some little bit of armpit hair, it is not as massive of a deal as others are making it out to be.
2016-11-14 08:25:29 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~~~ cat ,,,, The fault in your Q is that you base it on The Assumption that the Human Form is in it's Original Form. We contend that what you are witnessing in pit hair is the present state of evolution from a hairy body. ~ Namaste`
2007-12-10 08:43:23 · answer #10 · answered by Sensei TeAloha 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋