Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

People take two to three times as long to heal from wounds as other mammals, a team of biologists reported Tuesday in the ...

Hair serves an important cosmetic function for humans, and the hair follicle produces sweat gland products that help to control body temperature and release pheromones 3. Billions of people ...

Zoom in on your skin, and you will see several tiny structures. This section of human skin shows a detailed view of both hair follicles and sweat glands. Zoom in on your skin, and you will see several ...

Learn how human healing compares to healing in other primates and mammals, whose fur may help their skin stitch itself ...

Humans heal skin injuries significantly more slowly than certain primates. Evolutionary changes may explain the trade-off.

In the animal kingdom, injuries are a fact of life. In fact, wounds are so common that most mammals evolved ways to close ...

By comparison, “human skin has very puny hair follicles,” Fuchs said. And our ancestors lost many of those follicles, packing their skin with sweat glands instead. Sweat glands also have stem cells, ...

A team of evolutionary scientists, dermatologists and wildlife specialists affiliated with several institutions in Japan, ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Hair grows out of pores, small openings in the skin that secrete sweat and sebum ...