A small number of people — about five percent of the population — have two hair whorls, or a “double crown.” Many researchers agree that cowlicks develop primarily due to your genetic ...

Obviously, human heads are not spherical, but they are round on top, and so we all have hair whorls. Most humans—98.5 percent—will have only one, while a lucky 1.5 percent will have two ...

The study identifies four associated genetic variants (at 7p21.3, 5q33.2, 7q33, and 14q32.13). These genetic variants are likely to influence hair whorl direction by regulating the cell polarity ...

Geneticists refer to them as "hair whorls," but the rest of us call them "cowlicks," locks of hair that grow in different directions from the rest of the hair. Typically, cowlicks sprout near the ...