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For Teachers!
How does your hair know how long to grow?
This page has additional background material and links to resources that may help you prepare for and extend the lesson.
How Stuff Works An extensive article by Richard L. De ViIIex, MD Associate Professor, Division of Dermatology University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
What is the maximum length that hair can grow to? This site has links to several hair studies.
Hair structure This site states that hairs grow at different rates as the anogen phase progresses. I asked them where they got their information and they referred me to a web site that no longer exists. This unsupported statement prompted me to measure my wife's hair.
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