Abstract
It is fashionable to refer to man as a naked ape, meaning a hairless ape. This witty designation, however, is completely wrong, since we are certainly not hairless and we are not apes. We are abundantly supplied with hairs, but most of them are barely visible to the naked eye. Quantitatively, we probably have as many hairs in our skin as furry animals.
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Montagna, W., Kligman, A.M., Carlisle, K.S. (1992). Hair and Hair Follicles. In: Atlas of Normal Human Skin. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9202-6_8
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