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[injurai]

 

[jmdajr]

Allow the Empress Sovereign herself to remind you why.

right on

 

[terrisus]

How Can Eyebrows Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

Came here for this.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

On a practical level, you'd think that this was the answer.

But, anyone who's done any form of endurance sport knows that, if that is their primary design purpose, they are flawed.

They don't keep sweat at bay for very long, so much so that lots of people add a smear of vaseline to them to increase there effectiveness.

Well, natural selection works by process of elimination. We have eyebrows not because it's the best design possible, but because people with no eyebrows presumably had an even worse flaw that led to their disappearance from the gene pool.

 

[dokish]

So we can guess and see other people's emotional state. True story.

 

[Bisnic]

Because without eyebrows, we'd just be super intelligent, time/dimension traveling, mind reading, emotionless bald humans.

 

[disappeared]

All I know about eyebrows is that once in a while one hair will get ingrown and then you have to yank it out and for a second your whole forehead hurts and then you rub the spot where it was and suddenly it feels amazing and normal again.

 

[Loxley]

The premise of this thread almost sounds like a Jaden Smith tweet.

 

[curlyfriski]

Took way too long for this to get posted

 

[Delicious Waffles]

I don't know why but this is cracking me up way too much.

 

[Tesseract]

The premise of this thread almost sounds like a Jaden Smith tweet.

maybe

 

[joedan]

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

To keep us from looking like this:

We probably killed those born without them in our early years.

 

[thespot84]

what animal before us sweats the most, and why we still got them?

Animals don't' have nearly the same distribution of sweat glands that humans do, and I think none of the same kind of glands around the eyes or on the forehead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_gland#Animals) The problem of keeping sweat out of the eyes seems unique to humans, as does our advanced facial/emotional recognition.

 

[Uncle_Classy]

Well, natural selection works by process of elimination. We have eyebrows not because it's the best design possible, but because people with no eyebrows presumably had an even worse flaw that led to their disappearance from the gene pool.

Thinking about it, as our ancestors lost their hair, retaining some on the brow probably allowed them to give visual cues and subtext from brow movement that would be harder to see without hair. Being able to express yourself more effectively is also a survival advantage.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

i think to keep moisture out of eyes and to accentuate / draw attention to one's expressions

 

[Green Wiggly]

I never realized how much The Rock looks like Rob Schneider.

 

[Cimarron]

Sweat protection for the eyes. It also help with none verbal communication obviously.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

So we can identify the awesome people who can raise one eyebrow from the losers who can't.

 

[Tesseract]

can you transplant pubic hair to your eyebrows

 

[Sinecat]

 

[OmniGamer]

dealwithit.gif with eyebrows instead of sunglasses

 

[Cheeseman Battitude]

Came here for these two, leaves happy.

 

[cm osi]

they looks so happy and full of life

 

[Valhelm]

because we'd look weird without them

 

[John Kowalski]

can you transplant pubic hair to your eyebrows

that's again the hippocratic oath

 

[DiipuSurotu]

they looks so happy and full of life

They probably had a fight just before and right after the picture was taken.

 

[Blargonaut]

can you transplant pubic hair to your eyebrows

That move's called the 'Elder Magi'

 

[Brakke]

How Can Eyebrows Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

How can eyebrows be real if our eyes aren't real?

You two said the same thing now you gotta kiss that's the rule.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

Jesus, fuck

I feel like half the reason why these eyebrow-less faces look so odd is because the rest of our features appear to be towards the bottom of our face. Move our eyes to the point where are eyebrows were, and it'd look less alien.

 

[Ithil]

Because we look like aliens without them.

 

[Sub_Level]

We judge other peoples' motivations by their body movement, especially their facial expressions. Eyebrows can really highlight your expression.

Would be my guess.

 

[exmachina64]

http://celebswithnoeyebrows.com/

Some people don't look bad with no eyebrows, but...

#dead

Edit: This thread has me laughing so hard, I have tears streaming down my face. I mean:

COME ON!

 

[Saganator]

Most animals don't sweat like humans, so they don't need eye brows. Dogs and cats, for instance, sweat through their paws, but is not their main way of cooling down. Humans main way to cool down is to sweat, which is why we have eyebrows, to keep the sweat out of our eyes.

 

[BumRush]

So others can tell if you're surprised or not.

LOL

 

[Brakke]

if it's because sweat then why we don't got armpitbrows?

 

[MLH]

So others can tell if you're surprised or not.

I know nothing about this but I wouldn't be surprised if there is some truth to this.
Eyebrows do offer a lot it determining a persons emotional state and interest, such features are desirable to understand each other and thus have stuck around. At least that is my thoughts.

 

[Log4Girlz]

if it's because sweat then why we don't got armpitbrows?

Sweat stings the eyes.

 

[lastplayed]

Joseph Jordania suggested that the primary evolutionary function of clearly visible eyebrows was safety from predators during the vulnerable nighttime sleep, when early hominid groups started sleeping on the ground, away from the trees. Stealth predators (like big cats) as a rule stop hunting if they notice that prey animals are watching them. Cheap plastic masks, placed on the back of the head, saved many human lives in India and Bangladesh, where man-eating tigers claimed many victims in Sundarbans national park.[citation needed] Many predators (particularly big cats) are very sensitive to eyespots, and all the big cats have eyespots on the back of their own ears. According to Jordania, at night, when hominid eyes were closed, the eyebrows, arched upwards, and eyelashes, arched downwards, formed clearly definable oval eyespots on a ‘sleeping’ human face, creating an illusion that the eyes were still open and watching (and therefore could deter predators from attacking sleeping hominids).[2]

Hmm.

 

[karasu]

Eyebrows do a terrible job at keeping sweat our of mine eyes. So that can't be it.

 

[Steamlord]

Because they're hot.

See: Audrey Hepburn, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins

 

[Log4Girlz]

Hmm.

 

[Brakke]

Sweat stings the eyes.

why we don't got sweatproof eyes?

 

[Dishwalla]

 

[Tesseract]

evolution is a lie propagated by jesus

 

[MIMIC]

This thread is an endless nightmare

 

[Log4Girlz]

why we don't got sweatproof eyes?

Why do men have nipples? Because there is no god.

M'lady

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

Dem lips!

 

[DopeToast]

To act with!

 

[ramuh]

Man...because they are sexy...