Is this the point where I finally have a chance to bribe you with Gal Gadot avatars?Mmm Nope. No internet therapy from me.![]()
Is this the point where I finally have a chance to bribe you with Gal Gadot avatars?Mmm Nope. No internet therapy from me.![]()
Evolution isn't really that good at what it does anyways. Human babies have to be born premature because our waists/hips are too small to push them out if they have more time to develop. And our bipedalness leads to all sorts of back problems.
…what if you're all out of gum?
We're a work in progress. We haven't been around very long, compared with some other species
It's also worth remembering that we've not been designed from scratch (sorry creationists!) and are derived from other animals/species/things, so a lot of our parts are adaptions on what these other animals already had.
Yeah I don't know why we lost it since it was gone from our lineage before we walked upright all the time.Never thought about it before, but isn't it strange that we don't have a tail? All sorts of four legged animals have tails - for balance! yet balancing on two legs is even harder, and no tail.
Animal tails are used in a variety of ways. They provide a source of locomotion for fish and some other forms of marine life.[1] Many land animals use their tails to brush away flies and other biting insects.[2] Some species, including cats and kangaroos, use their tails for balance;[3][4] and some, such as New World monkeys and opossums, have what are known as prehensile tails, which are adapted to allow them to grasp tree branches
Monkeys use tails both for grasping and to help with locomotion. It's not just about balance. Our ancestors lost that when we traded in the trees for the savannah.I thought (wrongly or rightly) that our tailbone comes from our monkey/ape lineage, who would have used a tail for balance and climbing in the trees.
To follow the spitballing idea, perhaps four legged animals such horses, wolves, etc have a tail for a different purpose - and it's nothing to do with balance??
EDIT: the bastion of knowledge that is Wiki sought of agrees with this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail
You're not descended from Saiyan stock.Never thought about it before, but isn't it strange that we don't have a tail?
Has anyone else listened to a bunch of kids playing with their eyes closed and imagine little monkeys running around a forest? It's freaky how similar kids sound to monkeys sometimes imoAlso tails may also be used as much for sex selection/signaling as balance and the sapiens lineage doesn't have use for that maybe because of our pretty faces and very loud mouths.