What would happen if humans still had tails?

Tails would play a role in how humans maintained balance, depending on how long they were. In addition to the regular vulnerabilities, there is the added danger of someone being able to grab the tail and deliver serious pain and harm by disjointing it. It would be similar to having a finger broken.

Would humans be better with tails?

Squirrels and monkeys, though, use their tails to keep their balance and sometimes to even hold on to a branch. Humans walk really well on just two legs, so we don’t need tails to help us keep our balance. In fact, a tail might throw us off balance.

How big would a human tail be?

Some common characteristics a human tail are: They contain muscles, connective tissue, blood vessels, and nerves. They are always covered with skin and located on the tailbone. They can be as long as 13 centimeters.

Can humans still be born with tails?

Most people aren’t born with a tail because the structure disappears or absorbs into the body during fetal development, forming the tailbone or coccyx. Although a vestigial tail disappears for most people, sometimes the tail remains due to a defect during the developmental stage.

Why are humans not hairy?

Darwin suggested it was due to sexual selection, that our ancestors preferred less-hairy mates. Others have argued fur loss helped deter hair-dwelling parasites like lice. But the majority of researchers today posit that reduced body hair had to do with thermoregulation — specifically, with keeping cool.

Why don’t humans have tails?

Well, the very fact that humans function as bipedal mammals without tails sort of answers this. Tails would probably end up being aesthetic, however it is possible that tails could provide humans with extra balance (like with kangaroos, another bipedal mammal) or tails could become a media concept.

How would you style a tail-in-tail?

Flicking the tail would be the equivalent of the finger snap or stink eye. Walking tail-in-tail would be similar to holding hands. Fashion would be very altered, to allow the tail to be exposed, or to cover it, depending on culture and climate. Subtle (or not-so-subtle) embroidery, decoration, and paneling would draw attention to the tail.

What would happen if you got your tail broken?

It would be similar to having a finger broken. Tails would be sexualized. Tail length and girth would become a major factor in how males were perceived and “tail envy” would be ubiquitous. There would be fierce, violent debate over whether it is proper for females to expose their tails in public.

What would have drawn attention to the tail of a slave?

Subtle (or not-so-subtle) embroidery, decoration, and paneling would draw attention to the tail. Humans would have had a long history of cutting the tails off their slaves, prisoners, and other disgraced members of society. In addition to being humiliating this would render these people more uncoordinated and easier to dominate.