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Of course we know why. So that evolution could result in the universe’s most perfect being.
If Chins Could Kill
Groovy
Of course we know why. So that evolution could result in the universe’s most perfect
beingpatchwork.
What else would I stroke while thinking? 🤔
Idk, I was assured that pigs had a Chinny-chin-chin.
Growing up half Japanese I could never help laughing at that story as chinchin means penis in Japanese, and I think everyone should share in this amusement.
“Not by the hair on my dick, fuckface!”
I think Green Jellÿ should use that.
Green Jelly Suxs!
Bill’s whole show is just people running around in huge puppet heads chanting that interspersed with Three Little Pigs.
I highly recommend it. Even I had a hard time being drunk while sweating everything out due to the heavy cardio.
I will carry this sacred knowledge for the remainder of my fleeting time on this rock.
And giggle.
So it translates to a chin-like penis?
more like peeny penis or didi dick
That’s the exact lead in of the Atlantic article about this (paywall)
The “spandrel hypothesis” is the front runner explanation. Essentially we didn’t evolve to have chins but rather evolved other things that are helpful, and the chin is a byproduct of that other evolution. Not harmful so it didn’t get selected away, but not helpful.
But chin is one of the points determining attractivity in males?
If you’re perpetually online, maybe? The only time you should give a shit about your chin is if you have an abnormally absent one. Like Andrew Tate for example.
so yes?
TIL chins are only chins because they stick out. I had always considered the front of a lower jaw to be a “chin”.
In other words some people really have no chin…
This is why it bothers me when artists add chins to animalistic characters. It looks so wrong. An example:
Like, shit. Cool character design but you gave the cat lady a chin. Cats don’t have chins, why did you give her a chin?
They don’t have opposable thumbs, go into night clubs, walk bipedally or have those wing things either, why is it the chin that bothers you?
That character is mostly a cat skinned human.
Many animals, including most felids and canids, have a fifth toe (aka dew claw), which could potentially evolve into a thumb. You don’t normally see it on domestic dogs though, because if I’m not mistaken, it usually gets cut off when they’re a puppy due to it being weak and having a tendency to get caught on things.
Alternatively, there is polydactylism in cats, which can give them extra toes that can help them grab things (I’ve seen a video of a polydactyl cat using it’s extra foretoe like a thumb, though I can’t find it). It seems possible that, overtime, an extra foretoe like that might eventually provide enough of a evolutionary benefit for it to become a standard feature.
If cats evolved human-like intelligence, they’d absolutely have night clubs of some kind. That said, I’m not convinced that cats don’t already have human-like intelligence and aren’t just choosing to not use it, but that’s beside the point.
Walking bipedally is something a lot of smaller mammals can do as well, it just isn’t their normal mode of locomotion because their bodies aren’t currently designed for it. Going the evolution route again, however, and it’s possible that a species might eventually decide to stand up like humans did. Edit: I forgot about birds, dinosaurs and semi-bipedal mammals like the pangolin. Birds and pre-historic theropods walked on two legs, and pangolins have heavy tails they can use to balance on their hind legs so their forelegs are free to dig at ant mounds. So humans aren’t the only animals that walk on two legs.
The wing things are part of her clothing.
You’re correct that being bothered by a chin alone is strange, but,
A) people have weird things that bother them, sometimes illogically
B) I kinda look at anthropomorphic animals as being evolved from their real world counterparts, so I tend to rationalize things in regards to how they might have evolved. It makes it more believable for me.
C) iirc, in the context of the movie that specific character is from, thats actually someone’s VR avatar. As such, it makes sense to make human concessions like opposable thumbs, five fingers and toes (cats technically have five toes on each forepaw, four toes on each hind paw), walking plantigrade, etc. A chin seems like an odd concession to make. From the article, it doesn’t really give humans any really evolutionary advantage so it’s not like you’re gonna be unable to do something because you don’t have a chin; and based on what I’ve seen in the furry community, chins on anthros doesn’t really seem to have much of an aesthetic appeal either (otherwise nearly every fursona would have an obvious chin).
D) It just looks weird. Idk man, it just looks weird to me.
That said, I don’t tend to mind hybrids or mythical creatures like gryphons, dragons, dragon-cats, or whatever, so idk. It just looks weird to me and I guess the thing about humans being the only ones with chins is a explanation and justification for why I find it weird-looking.
That’s a lot of words just to try and justify posting a picture from your furry porn collection.
You answered your own question in your own question. Cats could potentially evolve a chin just like they could evolve an opposable thumb
Isn’t the point of this art to be an anthropomorphic cat? In that case, the chin is appropriate
except, as you can see, it makes them look terrifying, not like a cat.
you want khajiit, not Cats 2019
Why does it look like she has nipple piercings that couldn’t be contained.
Thanks, new kink unlocked.
I see a chin on my cat?
You see a chin area yes, but it is simply the bottom of the jaw. The human chin has actual muscle that goes below the jaw bone and can be moved ever so slightly which aids in facial expression.
As bigfig said, your cat probably doesn’t have a chin. That said, you might consider feeling your cat’s chin to see if it’s actually a chin and not just fluff or something.
If you feel a boney protrusion similar to a human’s chin, then you should unironically contact an evolutionary researcher. They might be fascinated about your cat having an actual chin as humans and only humans (not even neanderthals) are the only known chin-havers. Who knows, your cat might be the “missing link” between chinned and chinless humanoids.
I scratch my cats chin all the time. What are you on about? (Edit: I be wrong. There’s no chin there)
Jaw vs chin, I’m guessing the difference is fairly small.
Looked at wiki. The chin apparently is just the part of bone that juts out under the lower lip. So yeah, no chin on the cat.
Have you seen humans without chins? That’s why
Obviously its because of the lighting
My grandma said I was the most handsome boy… Are you calling my dead grandmother a liar?!
Yep
If I am not mistaken, according to the grammatical scrolls, having a chin makes everyone … chinese
More chins than a Chinese phone book.
Boooooooo
(take my upvote)
Peak humanity
The New Chad
To enable the Habsburg dynasty.
If other animals don’t have chins, they’re using a weird definition of chin.
So humans are also the only animal that can hear chin music?
I was gonna say elephants have chins too, as I’m re-watching old QI seasons and they brought up this fact, but upon further research their chins aren’t true chins with a bony protrusion.
Speaking of chins with bony protrusions
Believe it or not that picture was taken with the JWST in orbit. To fit her chin in frame.
I’ll always upvote a Qi reference
They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is
They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is
Howany moons does the Earth have?
HE’S GONNA SAY HE’S GONNA SAY
HE’S GOING TOO SAAAAAAAAAAYabout the acropoliiiis
where the parthenoooon iiiiiiis
Would you mate with somebody who didn’t have a chin? Chins are sexy.
Why are chins sexy?
Because they make people want to mate with you
Why do they make people want to mate with me?
Because they’re sexy. We’ve been over this.
Because otherwise you might be mating with a Neanderthal.
By DNA analysis that was completely on the table till they went extinct.
No “till”, plenty of living beings have vestigial elements that were positive at some point of their history, yet no longer are, but are still maintained because there isn’t evolutionary pressure to get rid of them.
“They” was towards neanderthals not vestigial elements. They are extinct.
Homo Sapiens develop a mutation XYZ that makes them not be attracted towards Neanderthals -> Neanderthals go extinct -> XYZ is NOW vestigial.
The genes were from Neanderthals not to make them unattractive and they’re also not vestigial. One is a very common gene related to blood clotting and can cause a higher risk of heart disease.
In other words, humans were fucking Neanderthals and we know it because of DNA. If they had never gone extinct it is without question the boinking would have continued.
Same as boobs, Human female breasts are mainly sexual, they are too large for babies to feed.
I refuse to believe that someone is dumb enough to actually believe this.
What? No other mammal has breasts like human females, and they are full of touch senses unlike other. They are clearly part of human sexuality.
did you have a stroke and forget the second part of your comment?
I’m pretty sure they did.
Elephants do for a start.
I’m sorry, but this isn’t correct, adult human females have breasts to hide when they are in estrus, by always being swollen, it’s called hidden estrose, it’s a whole thing. This has a lot of data backing it up. I KNOW I’M SPELLING IT WRONG! PROOFREADING IS THE LAST RETREAT OF COWARDS!!!
they are too large for babies to feed.
Then it seems I must have seen some of them fake it really convincingly for some reason.
I’m Asian and this is not true for my breasts, tyvm
