So many poor “design choices” in human anatomy. (Note, I know there’s no intelligent design).
The optic nerve. External testicles. Lack of decent fur. The way some nerves and blood vessels are routed make zero sense. An immune system that often wants to kill you. The list goes on. I’m sure a biologist or medical person could add plenty more. Many animals have some of these traits, too. If some trait or process is just barely good enough, nature will chug along with it for millions of years. Nature is all about some redneck engineering.
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So many poor “design choices” in human anatomy. (Note, I know there’s no intelligent design).
The optic nerve. External testicles. Lack of decent fur. The way some nerves and blood vessels are routed make zero sense. An immune system that often wants to kill you. The list goes on. I’m sure a biologist or medical person could add plenty more. Many animals have some of these traits, too. If some trait or process is just barely good enough, nature will chug along with it for millions of years. Nature is all about some redneck engineering.
External* testicles are legit really cool though, they change their distance from your body to regulate temperature
*they also can and will retract all the way inside your body if it’s cold enough
Sloths and elephants don’t seem to have trouble with their internal testes.
Maybe they regulate better. Just ice your balls so they pop inside then just sloth around so you don’t break a sweat and drop your balls
Wait wtf? Really??
And I thought vaginas were weird…
Using the same tube for breathing and eating is a classic (I type while choking on my tea)
Good catch, I forgot that one! And the other classic is having waste excreting plumbing and reproductive plumbing all bunched together.