All About Hair

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If you are listening to me speak these words and can understand what I’m saying, then you are a human being.If you are a human being, you are also a mammal, and if you are a mammal, you have hair….or at least the biological capability to produce hair. But why exactly do we have hair? What function does it serve? Why do we have less than other animals? And why do people have different types of hair? Learn more about hair, what it does, and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. ***5th Anniversary Celebration RSVP*** Sponsors Newspapers.com Get 20% off your subscription to Newspapers.com Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Stitch Fix Go to stitchfix.com/everywhere to have a stylist help you look your best Stash Go to get.stash.com/EVERYTHING to see how you can receive $25 towards your first stock purchase and to view important disclosures. Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:07.3	If you are listening to me speak these words and can understand what I'm saying, then you are a human being.
0:14.0	And if you're a human being, you're also a mammal.
0:16.7	And if you're a mammal, you have hair.
0:19.0	Or at least the biological capability to produce hair.
0:22.7	But why exactly do we have hair?
0:25.5	What function does it serve?
0:27.0	Why do we have less hair than other animals?
0:29.7	And why do different people have different types of hair?
0:33.1	Learn more about hair, what it does, and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere
0:37.8	Daily.
0:53.9	In this episode, I'm going to be talking about hair however i'm not just going to be talking about
0:59.2	human hair for all practical purposes or at least for the purpose of this episode hair fur and wool
1:06.6	will all be the same thing fur is just hair on animals and wool is just animal fur that is turned into cloth.
1:14.4	So let's start out with the obvious starting point for this discussion.
1:18.4	What is hair?
1:20.7	Hair is found only on mammals.
1:23.7	It is a filament made of protein, primarily keratin.
1:33.4	Keratin is found on other animals and makes up scales, nails, feathers, horns, claws, and hooves.
1:34.8	This is not to say that those things are the same as hair, but they all have a similar protein
1:39.5	base.
1:41.3	Hair generally consists of two parts.
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