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What is unnecessary, it fades, or why do men need nipples?


The issue of male nipples is quite a mystery. Men do not feed, and the nipples as ornaments look rather bad. As a rule, we have everything for something, but this is different in this cause. Where do nipples come from and what are they for?

First, male nipples are a reminder of something that chauvinists of all colors don't like to remember, or perhaps more often they simply don't know about the matter. About the fact that at the beginning we are all… girls.

During the first few weeks of fetal life, we follow a female pattern of development - from sexual characteristics to the brain. Only between the 8th and 12th week of pregnancy, the future boy is bathed in testosterone and begins to develop male features and a male brain. Later, such a bath happens again, and its absence is sometimes associated with the subsequent appearance of homosexual inclinations. However, this is not known for sure.

But the fact that we are all girls in the beginning doesn't explain the matter. There are species of mammals in which males do not have nipples because they lose them during the period of fetal development. We don't lose them. In this connection, there were, for example, such ideas to explain the matter that it is a relic of the times when men, as well as women, breastfed. Isn't that a nice idea? There is, however, a problem with it, and a rather serious one. There has never been such a time.

It took a long time to figure it out, and only evolutionists did it. Their answer is this: male nipples are spandrels. And what is it - you may ask - is this spandrel? It is an architectural term that describes the filled space between an arch and what it supports. Especially many spandrels were in the Renaissance, because arches were used very often then. The important thing, however, is not what era it comes from, but that it has no function. It is only a by-product of the fact that the vault is supported on arches. The thing was solved so that the spandrels were masked with beautiful ornaments. While viewing one of these decorations, to be exact in the Venetian church of St. Mark, Stephen Jay Gould, an outstanding biologist and eminent figure, decided to borrow it for the purposes of the theory of evolution. And he did it.

The simplest and untrue, because oversimplified, understanding of evolution is based on the belief that natural selection is its only driving force. The effect is that unnecessary things disappear, and the necessary ones appear and duplicate, and the mechanism always promotes the best of good solutions and only solutions that have a function. However, it is not so. Selection takes place on many levels - it is not only natural, but also group, genre, gender - which sometimes work in different directions, and build not from scratch, but on what they have. As a result, many things with us are, at best, good enough, not perfect. That's why we have, for example, the respiratory system connected with the digestive system, which is actually dangerous nonsense, because there is no benefit from it - you can easily choke on it. There are also a number of features that are a by-product of those that bring us some benefits, and at the same time are so indifferent that their selection does not eliminate them.

They are the spandrels. This is most likely the case with male nipples, which are a by-product of ... female nipples. They are not needed for anything, but they do not interfere too much, so there is no special need for them to disappear. And the latter is a highly adaptive trait that makes sense, is needed, and - thankfully - there's no reason for anything bad to happen to her. With male nipples - to sum up - the case is therefore more or less the same as with an appendix. Exactly they are. And that's it.


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