Why So Many Legs?

A lot of people want to know, why? Why so many legs? Well, why not? I mean, don't get me wrong, i would like 700 to one thousand legs also. But from an evolutionary stamp point, why so many limbs? That's a good question that often comes up. Essentially, the body plan of a milipede, you've got head, then youve got trunk. And so trunk is just all the other segments after the head. So they have a segment right after the head called a column. And it's kind of larger. Sidenote, so their quadrate column is just a big squarea neck.

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