Horses were at least marginally less ridiculous before people got involved. Not quite to the same extent as dogs, but compare a steppe horse with a thoroughbred and you’ll see that they’re smaller and hardier. Much better equipped to live, slightly less able to carry fully armored people on their back.
I always thought the fact that turning our heads too fast can give us strokes was rather inconvenient.
Or that sneesing / trying to hold back a sneeze can give you an aneurism. But I guess although it’s rare in animals it’s not exclusive to humans.
Yikes. That’s why I get a little worried about the high velocity neck stuff that some chiropractors do.
Horses not breathing while running opened a whole new world of anxiety for me.
What?!
imagine having a stuffy nose and you can’t breathe with your mouth.
wait yeah no we wouldnt be able to play like, any wind instruments, traditionally at least.
As much as I’d advocate for a professional rectal woodwind orchestra, I can’t help but feel we wouldn’t have invented the instruments in the first place.
Look up the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
So it loops around the aorta. That’s weird, but is it a problem?
It’s a perfect example of non-intelligent design and evidence of evolution.
I did, for the lazy
Your point ? I didn’t go deep, but nothing jumps out at me.
"Evidence of evolution
The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[32]: 74–75 is cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to intelligent design. The nerve’s route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish). Over the course of evolution, as the neck extended and the heart became lower in the body, the laryngeal nerve remained in its original course."
I think this is what he was getting at
Yeah, saw that, guess it could be, not compelled. Cheers though.
I’m glad you think your god is incompetent.
You had doubts ? ;}
Seeing how they invented bone cancer for babies and malaria-resistant mosquitos, not in the slightest.
It’s like taking a detour to Chicago to get to DC from New York
The teeth thing is just because of our high sugar, high grain diet
The first* people with bad dental health were Egyptians as they lived on bread (which packs your teeth and feeds the bacteria that ferment it and make acid) before that, and until the invention spread, people died of old age with all their teeth intact
I eat very low carb - almost entirely meat due to allergies, and haven’t had a cavity since I started doing that, despite me nearly never brushing or flossing my teeth
*There were also people who lived in the tropics and ate a lot of fruit, and those with sugar cane.
Teeth can need work from physical trauma, too. Getting hit in the head while hunting or fighting or just hiking might cause a cracked tooth, which can be deadly in the absence of dental care. Or just while eating, sometimes a stray rock or bone fragment or shell might cause an issue.
Lots of other species can regrow teeth in adulthood, even a handful of other mammals. All sorts of animals can have tooth problems in the wild, so I wouldn’t assume that prehistoric humans were exempt from that general danger.
Brush your teeth bud. People can probably smell your breath from a mile away.
You’d think. But where does the bad smell come from?
My understanding is it’s from overactive bacteria; I don’t feed my mouth bacteria with food that makes them smell
At least my partner still kisses me
I do intermittent fasting.
My breath stinks quite a bit on days I don’t eat. The bacteria develop very well on those days, since they’re not being washed off as often. And that’s before “keto breath” even comes into play.
Point is, your mouth bacteria are fine producing all sorts of “charming” smells even without food.
You probably do stink. The two of you are just used to it.
brushing your teeth doesnt do much for bad breath. You want to clean the rest of your mouth to get rid of that, which is probably what they do.
I thought Egyptians had bad teeth because their flour was ground with sandstone, leaving sand in their bread. They ground their teeth into nothing by eating sand.
I feel like the sand thing was a guess by people who couldn’t pick why ancient Egyptians had worse teeth than everyone else in the ancient world
If there’s sand in your food you notice and it feels bad. It’s not something that makes you go “oh well I’ll just keep chomping” and that would wear teeth down, not give them abscesses
this is also common with older bread. Another reason why it’s bad, it’s probably both though.
You never brush your teeth? It’s not only good for health dude
Yeeeah but they also only lived to like 30.
Those low life expectancies are typically due to high infant deaths. Once you are like 10 or so, the life expectancy is much higher, and more informative. The life expectancy at birth is in many cases a bit misleading.
Similar. I don’t eat low carbs, just almost no bread, and my teeth never get cavities
Yeah but that can also be because of genetics. I eat bread everyday and still never had a cavity
I note that birds, which evolved eating grains, don’t have teeth
Birds originally did have teeth. Beaks are thought to have replaced teeth because they serve the same purpose but are much lighter, and more importantly because they develop faster than teeth. Birds considerably predate grasses (which are what grains are).
I feel like feet and ankles have a lot of responsibility. I had a really bad case of plantar fasciitis for like 2 years and it sucked. Every step you take was a stabbing pain
That’s really just a modern problem. If you were part of a tribe walking out of Africa, you’d never have that problem. Our feet are pretty impressive actually
Dolphins probably lament not being able to make milk come out of their buddy’s nose by making them laugh while drinking.
I am 99% sure humans are supposed to have tails
Tails aren’t particularly common on great apes
That’s cap as hell considering a saiyan without a tail can’t become a Great Ape or an SSJ4 for that matter.
Did you mistype? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say
Sorry, let me translate for the non-internet poison speaking audience.
“Sir, you are mistaken in the idea that Great Apes do not have tails for in order to become a Great Ape one must be of the saiya-jin race and still possess a tail. Meaning a Great Ape without a tail would be difficult to believe, and additionally the Great Ape state is a pre-requisite for the Super Saiyan 4 transformation as well, which promiently features a tail. You see I am being humorous by conflating real life categories of animal species with references to Akira Toryiama’s hit series Dragon Ball”
Thanks mate I got the Saiyan part, I just couldn’t see what you were saying at the start because I couldn’t see you missed the “r” in crap :/
applauds and guffaws with merriment
Guess it doesn’t make sense to call them great, then.
Large apes maybe.
Yeah. It’s “big cats” and “great apes” I’m just hoping the name was made when great just meant big (I do know they named them before they knew we were in that picture)
I sure as hell am supposed to. A big, floofy one.
Ah yes, you are indeed one of my kind.
A horse is just an intense desire to die on four legs.
THE APENDIX HAS ENTERRED THE CHAT.
Being able to make our own Vitamin C aside, the fact that a vestigial organ can randomly decide to fucking kill you is asinine from a design perspective. Its the equivalent to building a pool in the sims and removing the ladder for the first person who wanders inside.
It’s not totally vestigial, it helps regulate colon bacteria. People without their appendix take longer to recover from diarrhea, which is important when bad water and spoiled food are a more regular part of your life.
Citation please ?, I want to know more.
Sure thing, here’s an example paper.
Thanks kindly.
tbf horses have big dicks, it could have been worse for them
It is, they have hooves.
how much bigger is domesticated horse dick than wild
You stand on your toenails
Right, but literal horsecock
Both valid points. I will still need some time to take this all into consideration.
Consider this: horses can’t puke and just die if they eat something bad
They also die if they break a leg, or if you put them away wet, or if they sleep the wrong way. Horses just die a lot.
What use is grief to a horse?
the lack of a solid abstract and title that ignores the last names of many of the people involved leads me to believe this is a satire
The breathing and eating tubes gotta cross so you can blow with your mouth and choke on cock. Non-negotiable.
You could still probably blow with your mouth if you didn’t have your lungs connected, I imagine it would involve a kind of burping type of action. I think the bigger problem would be that if your nostrils closed up, you wouldn’t be able to breathe, and probably also talking would be a lot harder if your vocal chords and mouth were separate from your main air sacs.
I think the solution is probably just an easily opened and closed internal valve that separates the stomach and the lungs, rather than this bullshit we currently have with two separate valves that lead into both and open for one and then close for the other whenever it’s required. It’s still good to be able to close both when you want to, but you can already close your mouth on command, and another valve with the nose is a notable upgrade in that it keeps everyone from smelling bad smells they don’t wanna smell, and it also doesn’t take any more valves than we already have.
There’s probably some way you could fix this all with enough surgical intervention, I bet…
