Number Of Hairs On Human Head - BNID 101509

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Number of hairs on human head

Range	90,000-150,000 unitless
Organism	Human Homo sapiens
Reference	Amazing numbers in biology, Rainer Flindt, Springer 2006, pp. 212 table 4.2.2
Primary Source	See references-Bertelsmann 1979, Meyer 1964, Rucker 1967-in German in the book mentioned above
Comments	Blonde 150,000 brown haired 110,000 black haired 100,000 red haired 90,000. In addition, all have 25,000 body hairs, 420 eyelashes, 600 eyebrows. For approximately 150,000 scalp hairs see Wolfram 2003 PMID 12789162 p.S106 left column 2nd paragraph
Entered by	igal milo
ID	101509

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