Only humans have butts. And is it true that butts are like this uniquely human thing? Yes. I mean, you know, of course, there's like a joint in a monkey or a chimpanzee or a dog or whatever,. In a sense, those animals have a butt, but they don't have like, abigitous maximus. The amount of fat also is a uniquely human thing. Oh, es so when we'retalking about a butt, we're talking about this uniquely human, mustly fatty thing. We've all got our back sides. So is the evolution of butts any more settled than the evolution of the anus that we were talking about in the
Once upon a time, there were no anuses. These ingenious organs allowed our primordial ancestors to grow bigger and more complex, but scientists still don’t understand how they evolved. And they’re still grasping at a mystery that literally surrounds it: Why is the human butt so big?
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