They seem to serve no real purpose, to be honest. Thus, what is going on? As we all know, having goosebumps causes body hair to stand up, which warms and enlarges animals. But why do we have people, anyway? Researchers claim that it is merely a holdover characteristic from a time when we had more hair.
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