A Twitter yarn on evolutionary leftovers in the human body has gone viral , largely due to how freaking interesting it is .
Human body are litter with bits and pieces we do n’t really involve anymore . We do n’t have tails , but we still have a tailbone . goose pimple originated to plump up our animal root ' hair to make them come along big and frighten away off predators , not something we do much of these days . Wisdom teeth used to help us grind down plant tissue , now they just toss off up in our twenties to cause us acute botheration before right away being off .
They are all little bits of grounds of evolutionyou can see in your own body .
In a viral thread on Twitter , evolutionary anthropologistDorsa Amirexplained some of the cool evolutionary leftovers that there ’s a good chance you still have .
" These are just a few pieces of evolutionary luggage handed down to you from your primate ascendent , among others , " shewrote . " Your physical structure is basically a natural history museum ! "
One of the easiest to see of these is the palmaris longus . Asone Twitter userdelicately put it : " I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST SOME HUGE ASS BEEFY mineral vein "
Another quite seeable remnant is on many of our ear .
The feature was first described by Charles Darwin at the root ofThe Descent of Man , and Selection in Relation to Sex , as evidence of our common ancestry among primates .
One feature everybody wants back is the crabwise wink .
Although when you see what that would actually reckon like you may want to think again .
If you have a babe , you ’re likely well aware of this next leftover , from when our ancestors used to cleave to their parent from birth .
Something that ’s been drift a lot of peoples ' minds is that goosebumps are rudimentary , and that some people can cause goosebumps at will .
There are many other cool affair in the Twitter thread , includingwhy males have nipples , wisdom teeth , and your tail off-white . It ’s well worth checking out the full thread , whichstarts here .
