TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.
TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.
www.smithsonianmag.com A Chin-Stroking Mystery: Why Are Humans the Only Animals With Chins?
It's an evolutionary conundrum, and scientists are still divided over the answer
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The "spandrel hypothesis" is the front runner explanation. Essentially we didn't evolve to have chins but rather evolved other things that are helpful, and the chin is a byproduct of that other evolution. Not harmful so it didn't get selected away, but not helpful.
But chin is one of the points determining attractivity in males?
If you're perpetually online, maybe? The only time you should give a shit about your chin is if you have an abnormally absent one. Like Andrew Tate for example.
so yes?
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