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Why do hair and eyebrows grow to different lengths?

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Why do hair and eyebrows grow to different lengths?
« on: 07/08/2008 09:23:44 »
Lauren Rosen  asked the Naked Scientists:

Hello!
I live in Sydney, Australia and I love your show. I listen to the Podcast every week while I work .

I wanted to know how come certain hair follicles like eyelashes and eyebrow hairs will only grown to a certain length but hair on your head will keep growing.

Furthermore, how do  they grow back to the same length when plucked?

Cheers

You guys ROCK

Lauren

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    « Reply #1 on: 04/10/2008 16:09:39 »
    Hi Lauren

    this link, to a question answered on the show in the past, answers this question quite well:

    http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/questions/question/2035/

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