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Why is there so much skin on a body?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

To protect you from viruses.

Also to hold all your organs together, and to provide a mechanism to help you keep cool (sweating), to hold hair which may help to keep you warm, to prevent you drying out, to prevent you sticking to things.

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