escargot
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The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long
Long story short - expert Native American trackers recruited during the Vietnam war to help locate the enemy in the jungle failed miserably once they had their hair cut.
(They might also have been unfamiliar with the South Asian terrain and vegetation, not to mention tigers, but nobody seems to have thought of that.)
Long story short - expert Native American trackers recruited during the Vietnam war to help locate the enemy in the jungle failed miserably once they had their hair cut.
Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved ‘feelers’ or ‘antennae’ that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.
(They might also have been unfamiliar with the South Asian terrain and vegetation, not to mention tigers, but nobody seems to have thought of that.)