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Evolution of Feet.

  • 14-06-2014 04:53PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭


    Evolution gets rid of things we don't use so will the foot evolve into a toeless shoe shaped object.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    no, no it won't.


  • Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I hope not.....we'd have nothing to give stupid thread starters in the hole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭19543261


    Thats not how evolution works. Thats like saying will evolution get rid of the tips of our ears and fuse it into the sides of our heads. We dont use the tips of our ears, right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    19543261 wrote: »
    Thats not how evolution works. Thats like saying will evolution get rid of the tips of our ears and fuse it into the sides of our heads. We dont use the tips of our ears, right?

    Ears are for catching sound,they're supposed to stick out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭robman60


    If enough successive skanger generations shoot up heroin, the foot will evolve into an oversized Airmax runner.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    kneemos wrote: »
    Evolution gets rid of things we don't use so will the foot evolve into a toeless shoe shaped object.

    You must have a really funny walk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    You can't balance great without your big toe

    http://www.ask.com/question/can-you-walk-without-your-big-toe

    So it's being used


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The human being is still born with an appendix.

    They're pretty much useless. That's evolution.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Maybe, if God decides so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The human being is still born with an appendix.

    They're pretty much useless. That's evolution.

    The appendix is what's left of the original organ afaik,so it's in the process of getting rid of it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    kneemos wrote: »
    The appendix is what's left of the original organ afaik,so it's in the process of getting rid of it.

    Evolution has no plan. It's not in the process of anything.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Feet are actually very well evolved for bipedal locomotion. Certainly given the non bipedal back foot it had to evolve from. They're so well evolved and suited for purpose that they haven't changed much if at all in many millions of years. The Laetoli footprints found in Tanzania were left by a non direct line hominid Australopithecus(well there's some debate there) nearly 4 million years ago and they look just like our feet. However the rest of the Australopithecus skeleton has much more primitive features compared to us. The arms, shoulder, hands, body shape and a few other things are much more "apelike". Feet were one of the things that came first with us as a people. Brains and more modern hands and all that came after. So spare a thought for those feet of yours. They're pretty impressive and have a very deep history going all the way back to the dawn of humanity
    The human being is still born with an appendix.

    They're pretty much useless. That's evolution.
    Well, kinda. There is some debate over the continued purpose of the organ. It may have some immune system purpose.


    AH answer. If you get athletes foot, blast it with piss.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,169 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    When I wear shoes. my toes aren't just dead weight. They still play a role in helping me walk, with distributing my weight.

    Even if they're useless, that still makes their presence neutral. Something would have to be actively harmful for there to be evolutionary pressure against it. My appendix could have killed me when I was 12, but I'm still in a minority. There is some evidence that the appendix does do some good, by storing some "good bacteria", which then re-populate the gut after a bout of diarrhoea.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    "Toeless shoe object" - eh I hope not! I spent the last half an hour painting my toes :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Meh,

    I can be very lazy, toes are great for picking up clothes off the ground rather than sending hands all the way down there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 Father Bigley


    kneemos wrote: »
    Evolution gets rid of things we don't use so will the foot evolve into a toeless shoe shaped object.

    Evolution most certainly does not do that. In fact your body is full of anatomical structures that perform very limited or even no functions for a modern human. They are vestiges from an ancestral species, hence they are called vestigial structures.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,022 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    We need the toes for balance but do we need the toenails? In 2 weeks time, I've to get two ingrown toenails removed, from each of my big toes. I got one removed 10 years ago so there was a bit of limping around, but how do you limp if both feet are operated on?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Bring back the tails.
    Girls would look so much hotter with tails and we could just hang around trees and throw our faeces at each other


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Feet? Obsolete.

    Meters are where it's at yo.


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    czechlin wrote: »
    "Toeless shoe object" - eh I hope not! I spent the last half an hour painting my toes :pac:

    I love painted toes. Long life toes!

    Also, how are we to judge the rise on the front of the shoe if we don't have toe cleavage?

    Too much toe cleavage:
    http://stylesizzle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/toe-cleavage.jpg

    Ideal toe cleavage:
    http://media2.onsugar.com/files/2014/05/27/893/n/1922564/77f1be177bce6649_483196731.xxxlarge_2x/i/Show-Some-Toe-Cleavage.jpg

    Important stuff this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    They wouldn't smell nearly as bad without toes,drying would be much easier too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    3014:
    "Heaaaaaaaaads, shoulders, knees and.... aww"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Tardful Slakerly II


    The human being is still born with an appendix.

    They're pretty much useless. That's evolution.

    It's a reservoir for bacteria. When someone heaves up their insides their gut flora (which is important for health) is restored via the appendix.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    with us short feet would be better for walking and longer ones for running fast so we are inbetweeners , for distance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Feet are actually very well evolved for bipedal locomotion. Certainly given the non bipedal back foot it had to evolve from. They're so well evolved and suited for purpose that they haven't changed much if at all in many millions of years. The Laetoli footprints found in Tanzania were left by a non direct line hominid Australopithecus(well there's some debate there) nearly 4 million years ago and they look just like our feet. However the rest of the Australopithecus skeleton has much more primitive features compared to us. The arms, shoulder, hands, body shape and a few other things are much more "apelike". Feet were one of the things that came first with us as a people. Brains and more modern hands and all that came after. So spare a thought for those feet of yours. They're pretty impressive and have a very deep history going all the way back to the dawn of humanity


    Well, kinda. There is some debate over the continued purpose of the organ. It may have some immune system purpose.


    AH answer. If you get athletes foot, blast it with piss.

    Don't you start with your 4 million years ago , everyone knows we're only 2000 years old.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Don't you start with your 4 million years ago , everyone knows we're only 2000 6000 years old.

    Get it right wud ya!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    We need the toes for balance but do we need the toenails? In 2 weeks time, I've to get two ingrown toenails removed, from each of my big toes. I got one removed 10 years ago so there was a bit of limping around, but how do you limp if both feet are operated on?

    I imagine nails are a function of supporting skin on an extremity, like a clip.

    Wait, that just gave me a really weird image of a mutated penis.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Overheal wrote: »
    I imagine nails are a function of supporting skin on an extremity, like a clip.

    It is sad to see such vanity. Who are you to say you know the mind of God?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    catallus wrote: »
    Get it right wud ya!?
    6004. Get it right for feck sake. :D

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Wibbs wrote: »
    6004. Get it right for feck sake. :D

    6014 pfft and you a Mod.


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