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from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. So Why Do Humans Have It?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Pubes protect you; head hair keeps you warm. But beards and mustaches seem to exist for mainly ornamental reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by JOSH CLARK<\/a> &\u00a0CHUCK BRYANT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THIS STORY IS adapted from <\/em>Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things<\/a>, by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are really only two types of facial hair: beards and mustaches. Every style of facial hair you\u2019ve ever seen is one of these two, or a combination of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about it like part of a Linnaean taxonomy of human traits that we just made up but totally makes sense, where facial hair is a family, beards and mustaches are each a genus, and their many varieties are individual species that could interbreed, as it were, to create hybrid subspecies like the duck-billed platypus of the facial hair family, the soul patch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This might seem self-evident when you take a second to think about it, but then why would you be thinking about this at all unless you work in the relatively booming beard care industry or you\u2019re a pogonophile\u2014a lover of beards and the bearded.\u00a0The Economist<\/em>\u00a0wrote about<\/a>\u00a0that very philia in a 2015 article about the growing trend of beardedness while reporting from the National Beard and Mustache Championship that was taking place in Brooklyn that year \u2026 obviously. (A year earlier, in February 2014, the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0ran a story<\/a>\u00a0about men in Brooklyn paying as much as $8,500 for facial hair transplants in order to grow better beards.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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