eyes

[milo_jay08]

What are eyebrows for?

[delboy3]

Keeping sweat and rain out of your eyes!

[Space]

protect eyes from rain
and make you look sarcastic you raise one of them

[deso]

Plucking - if you're a woman anyway.

[gary baldy]

Cos you look daft without them!

[Quizmonster]

Click here for a website that explains the survival value of keeping sweat and rain - as suggested by Delboy - out of your eyes.

[Gnisy]

I think eyebrows are used in a way to express ourselves. Just as tears flowing down our faces show that we are crying and that we are sad. And as we smile or grin, it shows we are happy. As we scrunge up our foreheads, people can tell that we are wondering about something. So I think that eyebrows are just there to to help express the way we feel.

As for clearing sweat and rain from our eyes, I think my eyebrows are doing a lousy job.

[aka estie]

I think we need to find a volunteer to shave off an eyebrow and report on the effects, don't you?

[lynneuk74]

aka estie - read an article of a woman who lost all her body hair due to chemotherapy.

She was amazed at what the effect of having no eyebrows or eyelashes was - sweat and dust getting in her eyes.

Also think Gail Porter has said the same after losing all her hair through alopecia.

[loudickson71]

confession: as an evolutionary scientist, I did think gnisy's answer was bollox, now I'm quite attracted to it.

[logman]

Its a survival stratergy, as part of mans early development and evolution. early man would have had lots of predetors to run from (saber tothe tiger may be)The folks with well developed eyebrows would have a good a dvantage because those who did'nt would be running into trees etc after getting salty sweat smarting their eyes

Animals that pant instead of sweat ie dogs have only underdeveloped eyebrows

[loudickson71]

dunno if it's a human thing. chimps and gorillas have em too...so it's probably an ape thing.

[logman]

I cant help thinking that guttering may have been a better option.