eli5: Different body hairs grows differently

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Why do some hairs on your body grow differently? For example, the hair on your head and face can keep growing but your eye brows will stop at a certain point, if you were to shave it. Also, why are pubes coarse?

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Hair is not circular in cross section, unless it’s perfectly straight. Hair with oval or orregular cross section will be various forms of wavy, curly or tight curls.

As for why pubes are so curly, it’s theoretically hygienic/ protection for the public region against certain things (but then promotes other things like crabs, so win some lose some on an evolutionary balance)

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