This may sound werid, but I have the answer right in front of me, I just want to prove it's the best answer, first to get it right gets 2 points in 4 hours time.
Therefore I suggest you all give the best correct answer...
2006-10-07 11:32:26 · 17 answers · asked by Chεεrs [uk] 7 in Health ➔ Men's Health
There's actually a book with this title.
Gender is not yet worked on when nipples are made...so everybody gets them, then later gender changes take place.
Remember, sex is already decided before this, depending on which lucky sperm fertilized the egg!!!
2006-10-07 11:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by Fun and Games 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OK, Here's the GCSE Human biology Answer: "After conception has taken place, all foetuses are effectively female before they become male. For this reason, all babies - and therefore all people - have nippes." Well, that answers it but not very interestingly. So... "The basic model is the same whatever the extras are subsequently fitted. So let's say that you buy a bog-standard car and you decide not to order the stereo or air-conditioning. Well, you won't get them, but the holes where they would have been are still there, The same is true of the human body; girl or boy."
2006-10-07 11:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we are mammals and blessed with body hair, three middle ear bones, and the ability to nourish our young with milk that females produce in modified sweat glands called mammary glands.
Although females have the mammary glands, we all start out in a similar way in the embryo. During development, the embryo follows a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in for a male embryo. The embryo then begins to develop all of its male characteristics. Men are thus left with nipples and also with some breast tissue. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-2011252,00.html
2006-10-07 11:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by Karen J 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because all embryos start off as female (hence the nipples) and then if the baby is going to be male then the extra parts come later.
2006-10-07 11:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This might not be the answer you're looking for but the reason men have nipples is because the also serve as a sexual turn-on. Men like it when women play with their nipples, it's kind of erotic.
2006-10-07 12:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Arrgh - beaten to it by the previous answerer. basically in the womb a foetus develops head first. Sex isn't decided until the decision on what sex organs need to be decided. By that time, the nipples have already been formed. can I have the points for a longer answer?
2006-10-07 11:37:15 · answer #6 · answered by babyalmie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
very correct about sex, a baby at the first stages of deveopment starts with the fingers, toes, nipples, eye sockets
2006-10-07 11:40:06 · answer #7 · answered by Alan S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all start out as female - until/unless the male chromosome takes over.
2006-10-07 12:07:45 · answer #8 · answered by JubJub 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
female also have nipples. its just rudimentary for males meaning it did not develop because we don't need to develop it.
2006-10-07 14:06:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we share chromosomes. its in the X.
women have XX
men have XY
so we share many of the same body parts.
2006-10-07 11:39:22 · answer #10 · answered by SAINT G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋