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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 days ago

Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole

www.popsci.com

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Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole

www.popsci.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 days ago
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Our nostrils share the workload like coworkers on rotation.
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  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    So one of them can be always fucking blocked.

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    “Dad said nope, that it’s the one hole too far, you pervs”

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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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    So when the crayon gets stuck up one nostril, we can still breathe and run for Congress.

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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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    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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