2007-01-26 20:40:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's a vestigial biproduct of evolution. We descent from a common ancestor of monkeys, baboons and great apes. It's reasonable to tell, in biological terms, this kind of explanation for a tailbone.
2007-01-26 20:43:22 · answer #1 · answered by Lobo Solitario 3 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Ask a doctor, not a biologist.
Ask someone who has had his tail bone removed what it's like to sit. That should have been an obvious function to the unprejudiced observer. Various muscles attached to the tail bone are important for facilitating bowel and labor movements, supporting internal organs, and keeping the anus closed.
Concerning the coccyx, Evan Shute wrote:
"...Take it away and patients complain; indeed the operation for its removal has time and again fallen into disrepute, only to be revived by some naive surgeon who really believes what biologists have told him about this useless 'rudiment.'" [Shute]
2007-01-26 20:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by defOf 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a vestigial organ...like appendix. Both don't have any function in the human body any more. But they were passed on to us, duing the course of evolution.
2007-01-26 20:46:37 · answer #3 · answered by the_sunil 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So that a magical lucky few can be born with vestigal atavistic tails.
2007-01-26 20:46:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, betty boop, they are tailbones
2007-01-26 21:02:01 · answer #5 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To match the headbones.
2007-01-26 20:42:12 · answer #6 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So we can have the pleasure of fracturing them when we learn how to snowboard.
2007-01-26 20:42:36 · answer #7 · answered by Tiger by the Tail 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So it hurts like hell when you carelessly sit down on something.
2007-01-26 20:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Could it be because we evolved ?
Oh, you got us thinking again anf thinking leads to heresy.
Ramen !
2007-01-26 20:45:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
We used to be penguins.
2007-01-26 20:41:23 · answer #10 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋