What is Skin For?
Subscribe - it's FREE! - http://goo.gl/EpIDGd And please support us on Patreon - https://goo.gl/ZVgLQZ REFERENCES Skin cell loss by weight Agache, P. & Humbert, P. 2004. "Measuring the...
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Compared to the bony plates of an armadillo or the hard scales of a pangolin or even the tough, leathery skin of an Indian elephant, the thin layer of delicate epidermis that makes up our outermost covering may seem like pretty wimpy protection from the outside world. Except, all we have to do is take a closer look at a our silky-smooth skin to see that it actually IS a small patch of scaly armor. Those scales are made out of the same hard protein, called keratin, as the scales of pangolins and other animals. Of course, ours are a lot thinner, and therefore more fragile, but that isn't normally a problem, because we don't regularly need to survive this. Our scales also don't have to be super durable because our body produces a brand new layer, composed...
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Compared to the bony plates of an armadillo or the hard scales of a pangolin or even the tough, leathery skin of an Indian elephant, the thin layer of delicate epidermis that makes up our outermost covering may seem like pretty wimpy protection from the outside world. Except, all we have to do is take a closer look at a our silky-smooth skin to see that it actually IS a small patch of scaly armor. Those scales are made out of the same hard protein, called keratin, as the scales of pangolins and other animals. Of course, ours are a lot thinner, and therefore more fragile, but that isn't normally a problem, because we don't regularly need to survive this. Our scales also don't have to be super durable because our body produces a brand new layer, composed...
