Double parietal hair whorls (Fig 4) are a normal variant in 5% of individuals. [3] Ten percent of African American infants with short, curly hair have a parietal hair whorl. [2, 13] Observe the ...

The new study explores the phenomenon of hair whorls — circular patterns of hair dictated by hair follicle positioning — in more than 4,000 Chinese people.

Hair whorls are an easily observed human trait. Scalp hair whorl pattern is typically defined by either a single or double whorl and the direction of the whorl direction (clockwise ...

So the counterclockwise whorl is more common among gay men. Since reading about the hair whorl study, I’ve been checking out the tops of men’s heads to see which way their whorl turns.

A “hair whorl” – which occurs in both hairy animals such as horses on their body and head and humans on their heads – is a patch of hair growing in a circular pattern around a visible ...

A new study demonstrates that you can blame your relatives for bad hair days. Investigators in Shanghai found that genetic variants influence hair follicle movement.

The first gene mapping study on human scalp hair whorls not only shows that hair whorl direction has a genetic basis, but also that it is affected by multiple genes. Four associated genetic ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Whorls of Hair on the Horse” in SA Supplements Vol. 55 No. 1421supp (March 1903), p. 22777 doi:10.1038 ...

In twins 70 percent had hair whorls going the same direction—and 86 percent of all twins had clockwise whorls. In the nontwin French kids, only about 4 percent of kids had a counterclockwise whorl.

The hair whorls on the head of a cow have greater implications than you might expect.

Is there a connection between the direction of a hair whorl on your head and your sexual orientation? Is homosexuality somehow correlated with left-handedness? Is left-handedness thereby an ...