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Why Am I Like This?
Why Do We Get Allergies? (And Are They Really Necessary?)
Let's walk through how our immune system evolved and what affects our allergies.
Why Do We Have Different Hair Types?
Being a human can be weird. Even when everything is "normal" (whatever that means), you might not always get what your body is doing…or why. Dr. Tina Lasisi, full-time biological anthropologist and part-time human, is here to help you make sense of how and why our bodies do what they do.
Why Do We Have Different Hair Types?
Why Am I Like This? Episode 3 | 9m 46s | CC
Have you ever wondered why your hair grows out of your scalp the way it does? Maybe you've also wondered why our body hair isn't as dense as most other mammals. Dr. Tina Lasisi walks us through why hair varies so much across all humans, how hair is a part of our impressive thermoregulatory system, and the shortcomings of addressing hair variation in scientific literature.
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