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My ears move. Happens when i’m in a quiet room or focus on listening. People have said i am an excellent listener lol. And i can hear really faint sounds that others can’t, and i feel this tension in my ears like they are moving around to detect the sound. Feels weird. Idk if this is actually related, but maybe the people that have these evolutionary quirks can actually use them, just based on my own experience with moving cat-like ears. Idk
Fun tid bit. It’s possible to have two Palmarus Longus in one or each arm. I have two in each. Also there is a strong correlation between those that have the palmarus longus, and sports that regularly require grip strength. I haven’t had mine checked, but I suspect that the two I have in each arm, are actually set counter to each other. It would explain the intense burning fatigue I experience after brief exertion.
My surgeon explained this to me after he had to take that “spare” tendon out of my wrist and replace it with the tendon in my pinky that I cut through with a butcher’s knife by accident. That was when I was 16 and I’m 35 now; I’ve been explaining this to all my friends since. It feels good to learn and teach!
Summary: The human body has a number of vestigial structures and reflexes, remnants of our evolutionary history, such as the palmaris longus muscle in the wrist, the muscles attached to the ear, the response to cold temperatures that causes goosebumps, the tailbone, and the palmar and plantar grasp reflexes in infants. These structures and reflexes once served a purpose for our ancestors but are no longer necessary or have diminished functionality in humans.
im glad you did the little bonus clip at the end. when my daughter was born the doctor had a run in with that and had never actually seen it before and it was pretty impressive. she was pretty healthy size so youd think there would be no chance of supporting her weight on her own. he went to flip her over and she grabbed the sides of the clear tub they cart them around in at first. we were all blown away she could see it much less process a grab on her own in her first few moments. he couldnt get her to let go so he just grabbed her feet and moved her around to finish checking her out but she was obviously healthy lol. when he tried to pick her up at the end and give her to us to hold she picked the bed up and wouldnt let it go. it swung and hit the cart and the sound scared her and she dropped it finally but i deff knew she was mine after that.
My original post seems to have been taken down for some reason (who removes a post promoting peace?!) Here’s a repost: I think some things should be cleared up. Firstly, evolution is not “we evolved from apes.” That makes no sense and has no evidence. Evolution of humans is to say that we evolved from an ancestor in common with apes over a very long period of time (millions and millions of years). In other words, that “common ancestor” was one we had a very long time ago, and not a species that is alive today and can be identified. Also, people often inaccurately characterize a “theory” as an idea that hasn’t been proven yet, which is also false. A scientific theory is an explanation for something, a scientific law (which is what people assume to be a proven theory) is a description of something we observe. But people will believe what they believe, by heart or mind, by tradition, or simply by the enormous number of world influences which have led us to stick to stable and unvarying opinions. Ultimately all that matters is that we can agree to live by good moral principles, and with common purpose. So when atheists, in this comments section for example, tell theists to kill themselves, they aren’t doing much good to justify their beliefs. Or conversely, when theists tell atheists they are superior to all other life and that atheists will suffer the wrath of God, clearly they do not fully comprehend the advocacy for love and forgiveness by their own faith. I implore both atheists and theists to leave an open mind to the other’s perspective, because really, we cannot yet prove who is correct on the creation of the universe beyond minor evidence and faith (though it is a goal of humanity to solve this impossible question eventually).
There’s been situations where someone was walking behind me and while I didn’t hear them, I felt muscles in my ear tense up. Sure enough I turn around because of this spidey sense and there’s someone behind me. I mean it was never a dangerous situation lol, but I guess my ear was trying to move to alert me of footsteps?
A summary of the comments section: – “Evolution is false/a lie/just a theory!” – followed by dozens of calm through to apoplectic comments explaining how utterly wrong this statement is. – Some user called “35oz 19g” trolling like the trolliest troll ever then being surprised that they were flagged for trolling. – Poor cat @ 2:31 That’s pretty much it…
I remember once in my Bio class, we were doing this chapter Heredity & Evolution and the teacher said that one of the new features in human body adaptation were attached earlobes😂 Looking around it was only me who had such earlobes 😶 Hysterical, everybody started calling me Tomo Sapien from there on…. It was quite funny…
Say there were 1,000 wolves in a community. An earthquake occurs and splits their habitat straight down the middle, causing a river to flood one side, and the other side to become more arid and dry. You now have 500 wolves on each side. The 500 on the arid side will now have to adapt to surviving with less water, scrounging for the moisture in plant life and puddles. Slowly, the ones who are more efficient at getting this water, be it longer noses or better digging skills, will reproduce while the others die. Thus making a species of wolf who is adept at surviving in desert like climate. Now the 500 on the flooded side will have an abundance of water, but a lack of land roaming prey. Their stomachs will become hardier from drinking microbe infested lake water. They will now have to begun hunting the fish, which now makes up around 80% of the prey population in their side. Slowly, wolves with sharper eyes and paws more suited to swimming will begin to reproduce more often, further diversifying them from their original species and especially their counter parts. Eventually these wolves will have thicker fur to keep in heat while swimming, they will have bigger lungs for diving, they may even have webbed paws. Now, you tell me that environmental changes wouldn’t have happened for small packs of wolves, separating them from the rest of their species and forcing them to adapt in kind. Small pockets of a species gain certain traits, that’s why, for example; Germans are generally larger than Koreans.
Intersting article! Here’s where things get even more interesting: Many structures we thought were vestigial traits or mal-adaptive traits ended up having a reason and purpose! Examples: – Appendix – storage and excretion of gut microbiota footprint – Sickle cell anemia – faster removal by spleen useful for places with high malaria incidence – Wisdom teeth – insurance if you loose teeth – Coccyx (tailbone) – attachment sites for muscles and useful in normal locomotion So much more to learn and uncover in this beautiful world! 🙂
Christian: Evolution is just a theory Atheist: So is Gravity Christian: but thats been proven Atheist: So has evolution Christian: But it says different things in my Bible Atheist: do you seriously trust a book written by old men in leather huts who lived in the desert 3000 years ago Christian: I do, cause my resident Priest told me so Atheist: And where did this priest study Christian: Homeschooled by his mother Atheist: And what did the mother study Christian: She didnt Atheist: This why the world is dead, because it follows blind leaders
Pulmaris Longus…. Supposedly a relic of needing to grip trees, yet in the article she made it clear that individuals having them and not having them have no differences in grip strength. Ending at goosebumps…. all of this is pure speculation that misleads people into believing a fantastical theory for the origins of humankind and animals. God bless you all.
For the “vestigial” muscle Palmaris Longus, it doesn’t help with grip, but not every muscle in your forearm is for grip, specifically, the said muscle is used for wrist flexion, the act of bringing your wrist from a straight position, into a curled one. As an arm wrestler, this muscle is not very vestigial, idk how much it helps me out with wrist flexion or in AW terms “cupping”, but it is def being used and surely it can add some pressure when wrestling with a person close in strength to you, that doesn’t have the Palmaris Longus muscle.
The evidence of evolution is found in almost every field of natural science. From paleontology, paleobiology, anthropology, genetics, microbiology to entomology, embryology etc. The rules of evolution and natural selection have been observed to apply to viruses within a few hours and to fish in isolated ponds over a few years. The fossil record is unequivocal on the progression of life. Animals without backbones predate vertebrates, amphibians appear after fish, mammals after reptiles.
The sad truth is that no matter how much you dumb down the concept of evolution so laymen can understand, there will always be those who will not. Not can not, but will not understand. Because they’re afraid to. As simple as evolution is really (and something observable even in nonliving things), admitting that it occurs destroys the comforting illusion that we’re a special handpicked creation nurtured by an invisible skyfather (or mother). Cognitive dissonance. If admitting the truth hurts too much, deny it.
Regarding adaption, how exactly does natural selection work ? A) Is it actively “choosing/preferring” a certain advantageous mutation which now enables it to survive, and be more appropriate to it’s current environment, as there is somehow a link between the two; the generic world receives and processes information from a person’s environment, and responds accordingly. B) Or, the selection occurs without any external stimuli, independently, and, it just so happened that a certain adaption matched and was suitable to its current habitat?
All the so calked vestiges mentioned have function. She confuses brain development and incidental grasp reflex with vestigial function, rather it is a brain in development outside the mother’s body not seen in some other mammals where the young emerge much more advanced in development. The purported function of grasp in arboreal mammals is being conflated with a fully developed myelinated brain with a brain in development. Happenstance. The genetic blueprint allows for a significant variation in the phenotype.
these genes stay there, and they could emerge back pretty easily if there was a need. like if there was global catastrophe that would destroy most of civilisation, after few generations humans would probaly re-evolve some of these abilities (like better ear muscles to locate animals in the night, or longer body hair that would make goosebumps more useful)
In science “Theory” means, “Our current best explanation for how an observable phenomenon occurs which fits all the observed data and testable”. Evolution is an observed fact, as solidly real as fire and gravity. We can watch this in the wild and re-create it in the lad. The theory of evolution,that is, our current best explanation for what drives evolution is also very solidly established and has survived 200 years of attempts to disprove it, without the slightest dent.
There’s no such thing as a vestigial organ. Every one listed in this article still has a useful purpose. The palmaris longus helps with wrist flexion, goosebumps are a result of your body trying to conserve heat, etc. Do more research than blindly perusal a article made by people who have no experience in the field or even bother to show both sides of the argument. That’s how you learn. “Evolution by natural selection” doesn’t exist, as they actively contradict each other. Evolution is based on beneficial mutation leading to new kinds of animals over millions of years. Beneficial mutations are far too rare for this to occur, not to mention that any sort of largely noticeable mutation isn’t exactly common, both beneficial and harmful. Mutations are a loss of information, not the gaining of new, so to take away something that should be there would only hinder or completely diminish an organism’s chances of survival, meaning that natural selection would most certainly play a part of eliminating generations with mutations, rather than the opposite.
Ha!! My whole life I’ve had moments when I could feel my ears ‘wanting’ to pivot like an animal’s when I heard a sound behind me. I’ve told people and they’ve laughed or made faces at me, and mistook what I was saying for claiming to be reincarnated from an animal or something, but that wasn’t my suspicion (I’m a biologist so I wouldn’t attribute such things to supernatural forces, lol). Now I know the sensation is not only real but scientifically explainable. SO glad I stumbled on this article.
I often feels my ears twitch when a sudden, unexpected sound comes from behind. When I was a kid I described it in a story and my mum laughed at me. Recently I looked it up and found that study about the ears and felt so vindicated. My ears really do twitch! I’m yet to meet somebody who can feel it like me
I remember reading about a tendon on a horses’ leg, a tendon that was apparently unnecessary to the immediate mechanical function of the leg…but what it did was absorb a lot of the shock during galloping, and only galloping; but it greatly reduced wear and tear on the mechanism over time. Honestly, though, if it’s useful in the arm movements of monkeys/apes/common apelike ancestors built from a single tooth and an artist’s imagination; it can be useful in humans. Maybe not desk jockeys, but anybody doing anything parkour-like, or working at a physical job even. The arrector pili, or “goosebumps”, may help in follicular stability and integrity: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158628/. I’ve also heard that they work in conjunction with the sebaceous glands…have to look that up. Their contraction when it’s cold need not be any different than your other muscles contracting when it’s cold, but with added benefit should you actually be a hairier human. The muscles of the ear…well, could be like the follicular stability. It could be more about keeping the ear in place than moving it around, and/or to basically provide adjustable stresses that keep it from deforming or shifting into a useless shape or position over time. Pay people 20 grand to have their ear musculature removed, then talk to them in 20 years and see if they found a reason to regret taking you up on it. Science!
Actually, saying that this “proves” evolution is asserting the consequent. Similarities between species is just as easily explained by intelligent design. For instance, every living thing demonstrates the “flower of life” pattern, but whether or not this is a sign of design or evolution is unconfirmed by aforementioned data/information/fact. (In simple terms, it’s just as possible that the similarities are the result of all the related species being “designed” by the same “dev”.)
Interviewer: Since you found evolution so satisfying and enjoyed teaching it to others, what on earth made you change your mind? Dr. Parker: I’ve often marvelled that God could change anyone as content as I was, especially with so many religious leaders (including two members of the Bible department where I once taught!) actually supporting evolution over creation. But through a Bible study group my wife and I joined (originally for purely social reasons) God slowly convinced me to lean not on my own opinions or those of other human authorities, but in all my ways to acknowledge Him and to let Him direct my path. It is a blessed experience that gives me an absolute reference point and a truly mind- stretching eternal perspective. Interviewer: Did your conversion to Christianity make you an instant creationist? Dr. Parker: No, at least not at first. Like so many before and since, I simply combined my new found faith with the so-called ‘facts’ of science and became a theistic evolutionist and then a progressive creationist. I thought the Bible told me who created, and that evolution told me how. But then I began to find scientific problems with the theistic part. I still have a good many friends who believe in theistic and/or progressive evolution, but for me after examining it I finally had to give it up.
..Wait.. Some of you people can’t move your ears without touching them? I can move my scalp very well and can feel all 3 ear movement muscles, feels like i can only fully control/feel two as moving their direction is easy and vast compared to movement up/foward. So I can at least move them back/forth up/let down