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01 Apr 2008, 3:52 am

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I wonder why we don't have tails anymore.
They got in the way, probably. If you've ever bumped your tailbone, imagine having a short tail and continually getting it caught on branches. It just didn't make sense to keep the thing.



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01 Apr 2008, 4:11 am

Griff wrote:
MR_BOGAN wrote:
I wonder why we don't have tails anymore.
They got in the way, probably. If you've ever bumped your tailbone, imagine having a short tail and continually getting it caught on branches. It just didn't make sense to keep the thing.


I don't think a small tail would be that bad?? It would be kind of cool to still have a tail.

Maybe you are less attractive to the opposite sex if you have a tail. :shrug:



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01 Apr 2008, 4:15 am

Whatever.

Planaria are true animals, by the way, and many reproduce sexually.

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01 Apr 2008, 4:18 am

Evolution eliminated long tails in humans after rocking chairs were invented.



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01 Apr 2008, 4:20 am

Sand wrote:
Evolution eliminated long tails in humans after rocking chairs were invented.


lying down on your back would be uncomfortable with a tail??



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01 Apr 2008, 4:40 am

Before humans lost their tails they used to sleep in their clothes closets hanging from the crossbar by their tails. The invention of the bed and the bedroom revolutionized human society and generated the pornographic industry.



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01 Apr 2008, 4:46 am

hey you could use your tail in the porn industry. :)



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01 Apr 2008, 4:51 am

To a large extent the porn industry is involved with a piece of tail.



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01 Apr 2008, 4:58 am

Well, would you look at that! Those choanoflagellates sure like to attach themselves to things, don't they? I wonder where else this skill could be applicable?
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Choanoflagellates of a feather flock together, as the saying goes! Wow...if these guys were more organized, they could almost make themselves look like a blastocyst with a bunch of little tails! Are those specialized cells I see?
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Those choanoflagellates should take lessons from human stem cells. This human blastocyst sure knows where his towel is! Or is that a she?
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Human embryoes like to attach themselves to things, too!
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And, once again, do take a closer look at these lovely flame cells.
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Which are found in Planarians!
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Which have human-like reproductive systems!
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01 Apr 2008, 5:03 am

When you talk about the digestive system. We are basically a worm (intestines) with bones and muscles to protect us.



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01 Apr 2008, 5:45 am

Oh, and here are some wonderful images of the goblet cells that facilitate our own digestive processes by secreting goop into our intestine!
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My, those little fellows look familiar! I wonder...
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01 Apr 2008, 6:28 am

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01 Apr 2008, 8:18 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Yeah, it shows out when you examine the evidence.

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Hasn't that diagram been discredited, or am I thinking of something else?



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01 Apr 2008, 10:39 am

Little heard of metameria (segmented body) is one proof of convergent evolution.

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01 Apr 2008, 11:03 am

:lol: Good one.


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01 Apr 2008, 11:10 am

monty wrote:
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Do I get the ten points? 8)


No, you only proved devolution.


that word makes no sense.