gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.www.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1493arrow-down114cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1479arrow-down1external-linkTIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.www.smithsonianmag.comgedaliyah@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square152fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareSuddenDownpourlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-23 months agoBecause otherwise you might be mating with a Neanderthal.
minus-squareSuddenDownpourlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoNo “till”, plenty of living beings have vestigial elements that were positive at some point of their history, yet no longer are, but are still maintained because there isn’t evolutionary pressure to get rid of them.
minus-squareSuddenDownpourlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoHomo Sapiens develop a mutation XYZ that makes them not be attracted towards Neanderthals -> Neanderthals go extinct -> XYZ is NOW vestigial.
Because otherwise you might be mating with a Neanderthal.
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No “till”, plenty of living beings have vestigial elements that were positive at some point of their history, yet no longer are, but are still maintained because there isn’t evolutionary pressure to get rid of them.
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Homo Sapiens develop a mutation XYZ that makes them not be attracted towards Neanderthals -> Neanderthals go extinct -> XYZ is NOW vestigial.
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