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HAIRY pinna, that is, hair growing especially from the scaphoid fossa of the ear but also on the helix and sometimes the lobe (Fig. 1), is now accepted as a genetically determined trait1–4, possibly male sex-linked1,2,4. The condition has been observed in Indians, Sinhalese, Iranians, Iraqui, Jews, Maltese, Italians and other Europeans1–4.
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ABBIE, A. Incidence of Hairy Pinna in Australian Aborigines. Nature 206, 533–534 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206533a0
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