Shaving your head is a hair-brained scheme

24 May 2015 - 02:00
By Ndumiso Ngcobo

One of the most fascinating sections of biology is that whole evolution thing, as espoused by whatshisface Darwin, which deals with why organisms possess the characteristics that they do. Take hair, for instance. Not too many people have ever pondered why it is that our species has hair, unless they had been inhaling a blunt of ganja.

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