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Why do we have eyebrows?
May 13th, 2010, 2:51am
 

Eyebrows are a very significant aspect of our appearance. They are one of the most distinctive features that make up our faces, and we pay a lot of attention to them. We think of some types of eyebrows as attractive and some as unattractive, and many people spend as much time preening their eyebrows as they do applying makeup to their eyelashes or lips. Eyebrows are also one of our most expressive facial features. One of the clearest ways to tell somebody what you're thinking is to simply move your eyebrows up or down -- we all know what different eyebrow positions mean.
 
So, eyebrows obviously serve a lot of functions in our culture today -- beauty, nonverbal communication, distinctive appearance. But why are they there in the first place? As we evolved and lost most of the thick hair on our bodies, why did we keep that little bit over the eyes?  
Scientists aren't entirely sure why we kept this hair, but they have a pretty good guess. We know that eyebrows help keep moisture out of our eyes when we sweat or walk around in the rain. The arch shape diverts the rain or sweat around to the sides of our face, keeping our eyes relatively dry. The most obvious advantage of this is that it lets us see clearly when we're sweating a lot or out in the rain. Without eyebrows, getting around in these conditions is a little more difficult. The shape of your brow itself diverts a certain amount of moisture, but eyebrows make a significant difference in your ability to see. Diverting the sweat away is also good because the salt in sweat irritates the eyes, making them sting a little.
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Re: Why do we have eyebrows?
Reply #1 - Jun 4th, 2010, 6:25am
 
Those tiny, little hairs above our eyes that many women either pluck, paint, pierce or tattoo play a very important role in keeping moisture out of our eyes.
 
Just like an umbrella keeps our bodies dry from the rain, our hairy eyebrows keep our eyes dry from rain or sweat.
 
When it's pouring rain outside or when sweat drips down from our foreheads, our eyebrows divert the flow of water or sweat away from our eyes.
 
Our arch-shaped eyebrows angle the rain or sweat around to the side of our faces--leaving our eyes fairly dry. By catching the water or sweat, our eyebrows not only allow us to see more clearly, but also keep salty sweat from burning or irritating our eyes.
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Re: Why do we have eyebrows?
Reply #2 - Jul 28th, 2010, 3:03am
 
I agree with Moba, Eyebrows serves as an umbrella to our eyes to protect it from sweat and rain.
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Re: Why do we have eyebrows?
Reply #3 - Aug 1st, 2010, 10:18am
 
yeah, eyebrows has something to do with protecting our eyes...the tiny hairs helps Smiley
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Reply #4 - Aug 2nd, 2010, 11:37pm
 
This is not a new question. People have long wondered why humans have eyebrows. Do they serve a purpose or are they just a fluke of evolution? Why was it that as we humans evolved, we lost most of the thick hair on our bodies but kept little bits of hair over our eyes? Nobody seems to know for sure why we kept our eyebrow hair, but there are some good theories.
 
Historically, the thought was that the purpose of eyebrows was to help keep sweat or rain out of our eyes. This would be helpful to our early ancestors since they would not have to wipe the moisture from their eyes as they broke a sweat when being chased by a saber-toothed tiger or other nasty creature. Although this theory sounds reasonable, unless one had a brow like Herman Munster, the sweat and rain still got into the eyes pretty easily.
 
Recent research suggests other theories why we did not lose our eyebrows and these theories consider the fact that eyebrows are very expressive and they help with recognition.
 
Eyebrows help with human communications. Often, you can tell how a person is reacting to something just by the way they move their eyebrows. One of the clearest ways to tell somebody what you're thinking is to simply move your eyebrows up or down. High eyebrows usually denote such emotions as surprise or happiness whereas low furled brows usually denote things such as anger or unhappiness. In fact, people often get more non-verbal cues from eyebrows that with eyes - even at some distance.
 
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