"When her identical twin daughters were born, I noticed that they had the same orientation of the hair whorl, so that is clockwise, she says..."
"Willems found herself unable to let it go. And now, after 13 years of staring at the heads of twin and singleton babies, her team's paper on the association between global hemisphere and hair whorl formation has won the 2024 IgNobel prize in anatomy."
"The prize is for science that makes you laugh and then makes you think...it's also a demonstration of how much humans can vary—from tiny changes in our genes to the visible marks they can leave on our appearances."
"Is it somewhat silly to study whether people in the Southern Hemisphere have hair that swirls counterclockwise more often than in the Northern Hemisphere? Sure."
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