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[–] errer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yet again proving Chads are the pinnacle of evolution

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everything alive today is the pinnacle of evolution.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A chihuahua is not a pinnacle of anything.

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[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

To enable the Habsburg dynasty.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

This was a good, short read. Worth the time.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Duh it's where.our chin horn used to be...

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 1 month ago

I just read here this morning, that beards are for protection of the neck...

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I read somewhere sometime ago that the theory that makes the most sense is that we evolved chins to take a punch, which animals besides our immediate evolutionary relatives do not do.

So we evolved chins as an evolutionary advantage over our immediate evolutionary relatives who would logically be competing for the same resources.

[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read something at some point about how our fists seemed to have evolved or at least adapted to be well suited to delivering a punch. Many people do not use proper hand forms for it, but I suppose it's a learned skill if not at least through trial and error.

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Great, now I have a scenario in my head where one early human delivers a punch and dies of having not the right hands and the other dies because no chin. Also: Imagine our fists if there had been more habsburgs.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

I'm gonna guess the same reason we have big knuckles/fists and men have facial hair. Fighting.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Chimps fight way worse than humans.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They fight differently, we like to punch.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
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