Body hair: an atavistic relic?
Eckes, L.K.
Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift für Dermatologie Venerologie und verwandte Gebiete 38(3): 125-130
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0017-8470 PMID: 3583727 Document Number: 292577
Hair growth over the entire body is discussed, including the axillary and pubic hair and the hair on the middle phalanges of the fingers, which has special place in the genetic process of hair regression as a whole. Body hair proves to be one of the characteristics that varies markedly with ethnic type.
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