Why Do We Have Butts?

Published on September 9, 2016
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Humans have bigger butts than any other animal! Here’s why we have so much junk in the trunk.

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http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-origin-of-the-anus
“Yes that’s a picture of a puppy, with a little bit of its rear end showing. And no, we couldn’t actually illustrate this story with an anus, now could we?
And before we discuss the origin of the anus; let’s back up a little. It’s a subject surrounded by, how should we put it, a bit of cheek. A topic right for puns, or a touch of verbal diarrhoea as we can’t but help see the innuendo.”

These Butts Were Made For Walking
http://discovermagazine.com/1998/nov/thesebuttswerema1545
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When Humans And Chimps Split
http://www.livescience.com/3996-humans-chimps-split.html
“A new study of genes in humans and chimpanzees pins down with greater accuracy when the two species split from one. The evolutionary divergence occurred between 5 million and 7 million years ago, an estimate that improves on the previous range of 3 million to 13 million years in the past.”
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