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Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place
Accuweather ^ | Mar 25, 2024 1:55 PM CDT | By Mindy Weisberger, CNN

Posted on 03/27/2024 12:13:10 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Here’s my theory:

Humans had tails.

The longer the tail, the easier it was for a predator to catch.

So having a shorter tail was good for survival.

The females began to see short tails as preferable to long tails, so they chose to mate with shorter and shorter tails.

Heads you win, Tails you lose.

Eventually all the long tails died out or were eaten by predators.

That’s my tale of tails.......................


21 posted on 03/27/2024 12:41:16 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Some….not me…are born with tails and extra digits. Just saying.


22 posted on 03/27/2024 12:46:36 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Red Badger

“...They tell us that
We lost our tails
Evolving up
From little snails
I say it’s all
Just wind in sails
Are we not men?
We are Devo...”


23 posted on 03/27/2024 12:48:18 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Red Badger

Because they like to wear pants.


24 posted on 03/27/2024 12:48:48 PM PDT by webheart
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To: Red Badger

Accuweather couldn’t get the weather right, so now they’re spouting this crap.


25 posted on 03/27/2024 12:49:41 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Red Badger

How long before some crazies want tails or tails on their kids?


26 posted on 03/27/2024 12:55:38 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cuz1961

“going to accuweather for biology is like going to KJB and asking what a woman is biologically.”

It is from the Institute for Systems Genetics and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.


27 posted on 03/27/2024 12:58:28 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Red Badger

Because we did not “evolve” from apes and we were not so designed.


28 posted on 03/27/2024 1:04:10 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: DouglasKC

Indeed if we came form monkeys they wouldn’t still be around it’s how evolution works.


29 posted on 03/27/2024 1:07:12 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

Careful, you’re giving the trans critters ideas.


30 posted on 03/27/2024 1:15:38 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: fretzer

We already have ‘Furries’..................


31 posted on 03/27/2024 1:20:33 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

An unlikely place?

Uranus??!


32 posted on 03/27/2024 1:28:15 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

"Got a whale of a tail to tell you lads
whale of a tail or two
'Bout the flappin' fish and the girls I've loved
On nights like this with the moon above
A whale of a tail and its all true
I swear by my tattoo

33 posted on 03/27/2024 1:35:04 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

Uranus?


34 posted on 03/27/2024 1:54:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

Doors


35 posted on 03/27/2024 1:54:44 PM PDT by Haddit
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To: DannyTN

They don’t make them like that anymoe.


36 posted on 03/27/2024 1:57:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: fretzer; PIF

Orphan Black already addressed that, I think in season two.


37 posted on 03/27/2024 2:01:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Orphan Black was too obtuse for me.


38 posted on 03/27/2024 2:24:28 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

OMG, I was gonna post that on Orphan Black, they do! A much underrated r rated tv series!


39 posted on 03/27/2024 2:37:48 PM PDT by BamaBelle
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To: Red Badger

Pants

(It’s a friggin’ joke, ok?)


40 posted on 03/27/2024 2:38:33 PM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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