Are they harmful? why do we remove them? is it just conformance based or are there actual good reasons?
GONADS125@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, human tails are hairless. Here are photos of vestigial tails on humans.
Sometimes our body tries to include traits of our ape ancestors. Vestigial tails are not that uncommon. They are typically surgically removed from infants in 1st world countries.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
treadful@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I imagine you’d either have to sit on it, which is probably painful (maybe likely to even break it), or wear modified clothes and dangle that shit free for the world to see. Personally, I wouldn’t like either of those options.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Not to mention shitting on it by accident.
hydroel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do you have a better source than this jpeg?
Our vestigial tail is the coccyx, and animals with tails have bones in them. Why would a vestigial tail grow at the base of the neck?
GONADS125@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gordon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sometimes our body tries to include traits of our ape ancestors.
But apes don’t have tails.
However approximately 25mya the monkey and ape lines split so itust have come from at least that far back.
GONADS125@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My bad, definitely speaking informally. Should have said primate ancestors.
Pringles@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well, I learned something new today. Now I’m happy I don’t have a tail.