Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole
Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole
www.popsci.com Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole
Our nostrils share the workload like coworkers on rotation.
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So when the crayon gets stuck up one nostril, we can still breathe and run for Congress.
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Because then we would cram all sorts of ungodly things up there. We're no better as a species than that.
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Can confirm. My fingers have been stuck and gotten stuck in several holes.
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Don’t develop a cocaine-perforated septum, kids.
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you're not my boss
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So one of them can be always fucking blocked.
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my homebrew theory is its also so you can smell directionally.
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You are one big hole?
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Is that similar to why we have a pee hole and a poop hole instead of one big combination hole?
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Those two holes are a later evolution found only in some mammals, the therians, and not any other type of animals
But I don’t understand why
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