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

[BamaBelle]

not r rated...typo

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Now explain the Long Ears and the Short Ears of Easter Island.

[Red Badger]

Earrings..........

[DouglasKC]

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

Be careful with this line of argument. Evolutionists religion teaches that man and monkeys had a common ancestor x billion number of years ago and man branched off that common ancestors as did monkeys and they "evolved" separately after that.

[Getready]

FYI

Already known that “junk DNA/genes” are in the “junk” heap of biological speculation....

“Jumping genes” also known as transposons and even retrotransposons...whad’ya know?

Humans became tailless so they could have one less avenue for escape from predators and one less way to get food from trees...

[RainMan]

Yeah yeah, but for real science, I identify as having a tail ... so you better accept that its real and pretend like you can see it.

[Paal Gulli]

No great ape has a tail, and the hairless one is the only one that is entirely bipedal.

[EvilCapitalist]

You made me think of this commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtPuWtmNPM

[EEGator]

Ha.

[Vaduz]

Np real data for common ancestor between monkeys and humans but a lot of speculation.

Tracing something back to the fork in the road and coming up with an unproven data isn’t science.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. We got no class. We got no principles. We got no innocence. We can't even think up a world to rhyme. That's from my late childhood and early teens, when we had nothin' but tail on our minds at least part of the time.

Alu elements are abundant in human DNA; the insertion in TBXT is “literally one out of a million that we have in our genome,” Yanai said. But while most researchers had dismissed TBXT’s Alu insertion as junk DNA, Xia noticed its proximity to a neighboring Alu element. He suspected that if they paired up, it could trigger a process disrupting protein production in the TBXT gene.

[Red Badger]

School’s out forever!.......................

[null and void]

A long sad tail:

[Red Badger]

[null and void]

And Manx Cats?...............

Also Schipperke...

[null and void]

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

Indeed if we came from Europeans, they wouldn't still be around. It's how evolution works.

[AdmSmith]

I wonder if rabbits, bobcat and lynx have the same issue explaining their stubby tails.

A good question and one that can be investigated relatively easily.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8

[Vaduz]

Evolution has peaked so far no missing link has been found that we came from monkeys.

Europeans are still be around and doing well.

[SunkenCiv]

https://search.brave.com/search?q=vestigial+tail

https://www.google.com/search?q=vestigial+tail

Eric’s sister Lori Forman was born with one.

[SuzyQue]

Made from dust...