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short, fine, "peach fuzz" body hair that grows in most places on the human body in both sexes. terminal hair, the fully developed hair, which is generally longer, coarser, thicker, and darker than vellus hair. body hair humans have significantly less covering of body hair than is characteristic for primates
hypothesis posits that sparsity of hair is an adaptation to an aquatic environment, but it has little support among scientists and very few aquatic mammals are, in fact, hairless. in reality, there may be little to explain in terms of amount of hair, but rather an issue of type of hair. humans, like all primates...
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