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3 unusual facts about Androgenic hair


Androgenic hair

C.H. Danforth and Mildred Trotter of the Department of Anatomy at Washington University did a study using army soldiers of European origin where they concluded that dark-haired white men are generally more hairy than fair-haired white men.

Anthropologist Joseph Deniker said that the very hairy peoples are the Ainus, Iranians, Australian aborigines, Toda, Dravidians and Melanesians while Deniker said the American Indian, San, Mongol and Malay people are glabrous (not hairy).

Milkica Nešić et al. of the Department of Physiology at the University of Niš, Serbia, said the frequency of hair in whites is significantly higher than in black populations.



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