• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      They swallow their prey whole, and they don’t have large gill slits to vent out water in their mouth, so they have secondary set of jaws to pull food into the throat.

      If you really want to get impractical, we breath and eat through the same tube, and that causes all kinds of problems.

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      6 days ago

      Evolution isn’t a directed process, so there’s no “purpose”. I, a male, have nipples. What evolutionary purpose does that have?

      • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        As explained to me by my high school biology teacher the reason men have nipples is because nipples are formed earlier in the development process than gender is.

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          6 days ago

          That still isn’t a purpose, but I guess a better example would be something that’s useless to everybody. Like wisdom teeth.