– Why do humans not have whiskers while almost all other mammals do?

Question

What would happen for us to lose that, but allow monkeys to still have them?

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Answer 1

Humans do have whiskers though. We have beards, just like tamarin monkeys.

We don’t have anything like the whiskers on cats and dogs, but they are part of a separate order of mammals (carnivora). So we didn’t “lose” those, we never had them.