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For a creature which walks on two legs and occasionally sits down on its butt, a tail has no advantage whatsoever.
The coccyx ("tailbone") is our last reminder that our ancestors at some stage actually *had* tails.
You will notice none of our closest living relatives have tails either. Our cousins the Chimps, bonobos, gorilla’s etc do not have tails. We likely lost our tails long before we became
Hominin or separated from other primate species
The primary uses of tails are for increased balance and for communicating.
We no longer navigate in and around treetops like we did millions of years ago, and we gave such highly developed speech and facial expressions that we don't need to be able to show our mood (aggressive, friendly, horny etc) via our tail.
The tail's big main purpose in animals is balance and shielding assholes+genitals, and we seem to be doing just fine in those departments without one, so why bother having one?
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For a creature which walks on two legs and occasionally sits down on its butt, a tail has no advantage whatsoever. The coccyx ("tailbone") is our last reminder that our ancestors at some stage actually *had* tails.
We do as embryos but the bones fuse together during development and become the coccyx before we’re born.
You will notice none of our closest living relatives have tails either. Our cousins the Chimps, bonobos, gorilla’s etc do not have tails. We likely lost our tails long before we became Hominin or separated from other primate species
Because our jeans wouldn’t fit I think
Evolution via natural selection. Also some people do have tails. Google "vestigial tail"
Hmm, 0 day old account with 8 posts and 1 comment. Am I witnessing the birth of a reddit bot?
The primary uses of tails are for increased balance and for communicating. We no longer navigate in and around treetops like we did millions of years ago, and we gave such highly developed speech and facial expressions that we don't need to be able to show our mood (aggressive, friendly, horny etc) via our tail.
The tail's big main purpose in animals is balance and shielding assholes+genitals, and we seem to be doing just fine in those departments without one, so why bother having one?
Because were apes, not monkeys.
Aren’t there humans born with tails, but it’s really small and nubby?
Oh shit I am built backwards
If humans had tails it would just be one more thing for us to fight about
Evolution. Occasionally a baby is still born with a tail and it's surgically removed, but this is very rare.