• GONADS125@lemmy.world
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    11 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 primate ancestors. Vestigial tails are not that uncommon. They are typically surgically removed from infants in 1st-world countries.

    Years ago, I realized DBZ would be way weirder if their tails were accurately hairless…

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      11 months ago

      Well, I learned something new today. Now I’m happy I don’t have a tail.

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        11 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.

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      11 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?

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      11 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.