Author Topic: How we are expected to evolve.  (Read 5675 times)



Why won't this idiotic thread die

Why won't this idiotic thread die
why do you care?
just don't post/read it.


you only help to keep it going by complaining

why do you care?
just don't post/read it.


you only help to keep it going by complaining

okay sorry

not really, it could just happen later on in the development process when the gender is already determined.
though I agree that we probably won't lose our nipples unless we drastically evolve physically. But at the moment nipples on guys aren't needed but they aren't really doing anything bad, so there is no reason for them to not be there.
Since men have breasts, they can get breast cancer. The outside part of breasts are the nipples... so if we evolved to have only muscle there with little fat or hormonally effected tissue then men would not get breast cancer, therefore it is an evolutionary reason for men to not have breasts, and by extension nipples. But this probably won't happen.

More importantly: Appendix. More dangerous than male-nipples and just as useless.

not really, it could just happen later on in the development process when the gender is already determined.
though I agree that we probably won't lose our nipples unless we drastically evolve physically. But at the moment nipples on guys aren't needed but they aren't really doing anything bad, so there is no reason for them to not be there.
I'll have to go with this. Species typically lose certain features because they provide some kind of disadvantage. It's why we have appendixes and whales have pelvic bones despite both being useless: they provide no disadvantage at all, so their carriers will still breed and pass the traits. On the other hand, if someone grew with a freakishly large slab of useless meat on them 10000 years ago then they would be eaten by wolves/bears/lions and would be purged from our gene pool. In short, humans will not lose their nipples because they provide no disadvantage to us (and even if it did we would still keep them alive, basically giving the finger to nature and natural selection).

Since men have breasts, they can get breast cancer. The outside part of breasts are the nipples... so if we evolved to have only muscle there with little fat or hormonally effected tissue then men would not get breast cancer, therefore it is an evolutionary reason for men to not have breasts, and by extension nipples. But this probably won't happen.

More importantly: Appendix. More dangerous than male-nipples and just as useless.

The whole idea of losing specific parts is that the carrier of the gene needs to die before they can breed. We have surgeries to remove the appendix and people typically have children before they die of breast cancer.


not really, it could just happen later on in the development process when the gender is already determined.
though I agree that we probably won't lose our nipples unless we drastically evolve physically. But at the moment nipples on guys aren't needed but they aren't really doing anything bad, so there is no reason for them to not be there.
i don't think you understand. it would require women to lose their nipples. women need nipples to feed children with breast milk. Unless people start loving with fetuses to remove nipples, this will not evolve to become a trait among men.

i don't think you understand. it would require women to lose their nipples. women need nipples to feed children with breast milk. Unless people start loving with fetuses to remove nipples, this will not evolve to become a trait among men.
no I didn't misunderstand, you misundertood me.

Nipples could just develop after the love of the child is already determined, that way females would come out with, and men without.

But it still won't happen, it just could.

no I didn't misunderstand, you misundertood me.

Nipples could just develop after the love of the child is already determined, that way females would come out with, and men without.

But it still won't happen, it just could.
it could but it won't because it would be counter productive. technically all humans could begin being born with snakees on their faces, it could happen but it won't because it's counterproductive.

i don't think you understand. it would require women to lose their nipples. women need nipples to feed children with breast milk. Unless people start loving with fetuses to remove nipples, this will not evolve to become a trait among men.
Why would women lose their nipples? Some evolutionary traits are actually gender specific, like the smaller testicles mentioned in the funny article.