Has anyone hear about human babies being born with tails? I heard its a form of atavism bringing out ancestral characteristics. I read in the newspaper the other day. Do you think this strengthens evolutions argument of our origins?
2007-02-20 10:51:57 · 15 answers · asked by Maikeru 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It doesn't really need strengthening. It's pretty strong as it is. It is nice to see vestigial tails, extra pairs of duck feet, Komodo dragons reproducing asexually and things like that, but it happens all the time so it's not that big of a deal.
2007-02-20 10:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nothing new, babies have been born with tales since time began. It is very very rare, our genetics are so far removed from the time our ancestors had tails that it is remarkable when it happens. There are pics on the web. The tail is usually removed at birth. Our cousins the great apes also rarely are born with tails. Certainly it is evidence of evolution. So is the change in height of mankind over the past 5000 years, we are much larger than back then. Our brains have grown also.
2007-02-27 14:55:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you might want to start reading accountable newspapers and leave the National Enquirer alone. If it was in the Enquirer it might have been the off spring of a space alien.
I can't say this strengthens the argument of evolution, but it does prove some people are more gullible than others.
2007-02-28 09:28:43 · answer #3 · answered by don n 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occasionally, a baby will be born with what some people call a "tail". It is not a tail at all, but some fat and tissue that was not enclosed in the baby's back during development. It can usually be easily surgically removed. It is just one of the things that can go wrong, due to a LOSS of genetic information, which is actually the opposite of evolution.
2007-02-20 11:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by BB 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, we all have rudimentary tailbones, i.e., extensions of our vertebral columns. Normally, the tailbone consists of four vertebrae, but some people have only three and others have five.
I do not doubt evolution, so I am probably not the right person to answer your question. I don't need further proof for evolution. The proof is already there, because a scientific theory, unlike a lay theory, rests on scientifically proven hyotheses and must be testable.
2007-02-20 11:01:07 · answer #5 · answered by sipplek 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. First of all no humans have been born with tails. It is actually the coccyx. The wrongly called tail bone serves import functions in humans. You wouldn't want to try to live without one. See the source below for more detailed information.
2007-02-20 11:09:14 · answer #6 · answered by Matt 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As we form in the womb we all have a tail present, but due to Natural Selection (one of the five mechanisms of Evolution) it has been "voted" out and it disappears shortly after during our process. SOME people are born with it however.
2007-02-20 11:03:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it does not. It could be some kind of minor mutation from the chromosomes. When you see a baby or someone else turn into a monkey then that might be proof. But then again, get your monkey *** sect beliefs out of here. No more bananas for you.
2007-02-20 11:11:38 · answer #8 · answered by carlos r 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Consider the source. Is it reliable? Have you first hand knowledge of this happening? Is it logical? There are a lot of days that I wished that I was bon with a tail, However God designed me without one. So I make do!!
2007-02-20 11:17:33 · answer #9 · answered by michael m 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, if anything it strengthens the fact that all matter decomposes, that imperfection begets imperfection when handed down over time, just as creationism and common sense tell us. Genetic mutations are becoming a more frequent phenomena the further we descend from perfection.
2007-02-20 10:57:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋