Yeah it's interesting. Body hair serves no evolutionary purpose for our species. In our fore bearers, it was for warmth, thus when we get cold or frightened what little remains of our hair stands on end like a cat. It might be for sexual selection, but for modern humans it seems like the trend is more towards the less body hair the better. It's vestigial like our tail bones and our tonsils. Perhaps that's why we think it's gross, because some part of us knows it's useless.
Humans have a strange reaction to hair once it is removed from the body. When it's attached, we think it's nice. Once it is seperated, there is this "gross" connotation by many of us. I always that that was strange.
Yeah it's interesting. Body hair serves no evolutionary purpose for our species. In our fore bearers, it was for warmth, thus when we get cold or frightened what little remains of our hair stands on end like a cat. It might be for sexual selection, but for modern humans it seems like the trend is more towards the less body hair the better. It's vestigial like our tail bones and our tonsils. Perhaps that's why we think it's gross, because some part of us knows it's useless.
aegis7 4 years ago
Humans have a strange reaction to hair once it is removed from the body. When it's attached, we think it's nice. Once it is seperated, there is this "gross" connotation by many of us. I always that that was strange.
-CwC
TheInfinityLab 4 years ago