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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by tzs on Sunday March 24, 2024 @11:33AM (#39807860)
Probably good that we lost them. Judging by photos [1] of some of the rare cases of humans who were born with tails human tails wouldn't be aesthetically pleasing. Although perhaps human tails that are the result of something going awry might not be a good indicator of what human tails would be like if we had kept them.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263034/

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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by jezzamon on Sunday March 24, 2024 @11:41AM (#39807902)
If we kept tails both the tails and our sense of what is attractive would be under evolutionary pressures so they probably would be normal to us!
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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by gigglesupstairs on Monday March 25, 2024 @12:58AM (#39812977)
Exactly. I still find noses and ears to be such noticeable protrusions once I let go of my knowledge of human faces.
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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by GordonS on Sunday March 24, 2024 @11:40AM (#39807892)
If we'd never lost tails, probably we wouldn't find then so "un-human". Also, presumably most people would have "normal" (as in, the same as most others) tails, rather than like the images in that article.
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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by atomlib on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:11PM (#39812039)
Clearly you haven't heard of catgirls.
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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by happymellon on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:15AM (#39814119)
Although those photos were more dickbutt than catgirl.
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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by withinboredom on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:26AM (#39814892)
NSFW, in case you are thinking about checking the link out.
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Re:Why don't humans have tails? by GirkovArpa on Monday March 25, 2024 @06:56PM (#39822188)
This comment needs to be higher.
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