• Question: Why do men grow beards but women don't?

    Asked by Pads234?⚡️? to Reka on 21 Nov 2016.
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      Reka Nagy answered on 21 Nov 2016:


      Women actually have the ability to grow beards, just like men, because they have the hair follicles present! The reason they (usually) don’t is because women produce a lot lower levels of testosterone, which is the hormone that causes beards to start growing, among other things!

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