Conversation with Ross
Ross: Mom, why do grown-up’s
have hair on their balls and she-shes?
Me: I don’t know, I suppose
it’s a protective mechanism from prehistoric-cavemen days.
Ross: Like, for germs?
Me: Yeah, just like how eyebrows
and eyelashes protect your eye’s, any opening to your body has some way to
protect it from germs.
Ross: Why do armpits grow
hair then?
Me: Good question, that is really weird.
Ross: I bet I know why. When someone is lifting weights and a germ
falls into their armpit, as soon as that person lowers that arm, then lifts it
again, the hair shoots the germ right back out.
Me: Possible, I suppose.
Ross: But I still don’t get why
people get hair on their chests?
Me: Well, our genetic
make-up is very similar to apes and gorillas, of all the animals we are the
most similar to them. Maybe that’s why.
Ross: What? I always thought
we were closest to dolphins?!
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