Ulrich Doering/Alamy
Why do humans have pubic hair, when other “hairless” mammals, like pigs and elephants, manage without it? (continued)
Margaret Nelson
Ithaca, New York, US
I am itching (so to speak) to add my two cents to the previous attempts to explain why Homo sapiens has such a spotty distribution of hairy bits (17 September & 15 October).
As a student of animal behaviour, it seems obvious to me that the distribution of hair in our armpits and pubic region has nothing whatever to do with providing protection from tall grass on the savannah and everything to do with pheromones and…
