# How come we have hair on our heads?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 11, 2007, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-we-have-hair-on-our-heads/415240 "2007-08-11T09:39:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-we-have-hair-on-our-heads/415240/21 "2012-07-10T18:22:12Z")

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> [@betenoir](#):
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> But why? Whhhhyyyy??? I mean mole rats arn’t very attractivie. Why should a hairless ape be more attractive? And why this stuff on top of our skulls? I want answers!!! Or more fur.

There’s no reasoning “why” when it comes to sexual selection. It just is. You find attractive what you are conditioned to find attractive. Birds are turned on by brightly colored feathers. Baboons love an ass that looks like a 40 pound hemorrhoid to me. For all we know, mole rats find Norway rats to be disgustingly hairy. I’m sure that dogs are puzzled by the human fixation on fatty mammary glands.

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**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-we-have-hair-on-our-heads/415240/22 "2012-07-10T19:04:20Z")

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Do zombies have hair? Or, rather, do zombies _grow_ hair? Or is the hair they have just left over pre-zombie hair. Can’t find a wiki page for answer.

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