A Bone To Pick With Evolution

[atalanta]

If you could argue with Evolution, what would you complain about ? (I know a lot of men who would like to moan about baldness)
My bone to pick would be human feet. If we must have five differently-sized toes, why couldn't Evolution have put the big one in the middle ? Then shoes would be so much easier to design, and probably prettier and more comfortable. And nobody would get bunions.

[boxtops]

That's not evolution's problem, that's fashion!

[sandyRoe]

I could never understand what evolutionary advantage there is in hair growing from a chaps ears and nose as he gets older.

[Mick-Talbot]

Why are we different colours, if we were all the same colour a lot of Sugar would disappear in an instant.

[Hopkirk]

... and who's stupid idea was it to hang a pair of very delicate objects in a place where they can easily be kicked?

[Frank97]

Or to put the playground next to the sewage works.

[boxtops]

why do boobs still hang around after they are no longer useful?

[Charity]

Perhaps God is a woman.........

[Mick-Talbot]

Noses are important, for when you start going blind. A big tick for the nose.

[FredPuli43]

Feet? I just bought a pair of Swiss socks in Geneva which are marked "L" and "R" in stitching for left and right, but in German; clearly the Swiss didn't think to put it in their other languages ; and they are so designed. Each is longer where the big toe is.

The back is a bit of evolutionary compromise or bad design. It would work well if we were still walking on all fours but, as a flexible column set upright , it is not so good.

[Mick-Talbot]

4 legs good 2 legs bad

[naomi24]

... until it evolved into 2 legs good 4 legs bad ... ;o)

[atalanta]

As for noses being useful for holding spectacles, wouldn't it have been a great deal more use if Evolution had given us better-designed eyes in the first place ?
As it is, they are "designed" inside-out.

[Prudie]

And better ears. Ears are weird and gnarled and they get bigger and uglier as we age.

[sandyRoe]

But to compensate, look where evolution put our ears. Just in the right place in relation to our noses to steady our glasses.

[Graham-W]

Teeth that don't rot or discolour. Faceted diamond would be nice.

[Prudie]

This is true sandy and they just happen to be in the right place to fit earmuffs.

[commoner]

Nipples on MEN...what the 'eck are they for...worse still they often turn into full size men boobs.....mine are bigger than some of the page 3 girls I have seen..oh dear!

[sandyRoe]

It seems the evidence for 'intelligent design' is staring us in the face every time we look in a mirror(the spatial relationship between nose and ears) and yet there are those Doubting Thomases who still scoff.

[Georgiesmum]

I am registered blind, so i would have liked another pair of eyes in my forehead so if one pair of eyes are useless like mine i would have another pair to fall back on so to speak.