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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by someguy3@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Why is there no hair? It's completely surrounded by hair. The entire rest of the head (except parts of the actual face) is covered by hair. Other animals have hair.

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[-] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago

George Carlin said it best, yes a receding hairline is annoying, but no where near as bad as an advancing hairline.

Who would want to have to shave their forehead?

[-] OtisRamflow@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just really think in terms of bangability. You wanna bang someone with a hairy forehead? Neither did our ancestors.

[-] Enkrod@feddit.de 5 points 1 week ago

This is it, it's the perfect example of adaptation through sexual selection.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 44 points 1 week ago

Better non-verbal communication with your peers. Same thing for having white eyeballs and dark irises, everyone around you knows exactly what your looking at.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
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[-] Enkrod@feddit.de 1 points 1 week ago

Man, I'd love to see her as a beleaguered ruler struggling with questions of morality in a fantasy show. Just imagine seeing her wrestling with life-or-death decisions concerning hundreds if not thousands of her subjects.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

The furry community is very welcoming....or so I'm told.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

It helps to think of your hair as essentially being a mane. Remember, lion manes also expose their forehead.

[-] downpunxx@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago

evolutionary our bare skin matched with our outstanding ability to sweat is related to staying cool

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ever have sweat drip into your eyes? Shit stings.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

That's why you have eyebrows.

[-] superfes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That's why I shave them off...

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago
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[-] Mr_Wobble@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sweat stings too.

[-] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Male orangutans don't have their faces completely covered with hair. So it's not just humans.

[-] fiercekitten@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

I am a woman with a small forehead (low hairline) and it always looks like I'm wearing a wig. I hate it. I yearn for a normal-sized forehead.

[-] Goudewup@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago

All women yearn for a normal-sized forehead. Regardless of actual forehead size.

[-] MadBabs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I am a woman with ample forehead to spare. Too bad I can't send some your way.

[-] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

long forehead hair would be hard to keep out of your face. there's survival fitness in not having hair cover your eyes /speculation

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago
[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 week ago

other animals have hair but less around the face. The hair on top of my golden retriever is long but around the face it does not grow long. For all practical purposes the area around the snout and eyes is bare.

[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 2 points 1 week ago

Hairy Potter

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 1 week ago

If I look surprised, would my eyebrows be technically on my forehead, thus giving it hair? 🤔

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

It houses your brain and absorbers impact... What's strange about that?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Hair helps absorb impacts.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

absorbers impact

YMMV

this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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