TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.

What else would I stroke while thinking? 🤔

So humans are also the only animal that can hear chin music?

To enable the Habsburg dynasty.

Of course we know why. So that evolution could result in the universe's most perfect being.

The "spandrel hypothesis" is the front runner explanation. Essentially we didn't evolve to have chins but rather evolved other things that are helpful, and the chin is a byproduct of that other evolution. Not harmful so it didn't get selected away, but not helpful.

Idk, I was assured that pigs had a Chinny-chin-chin.

TIL chins are only chins because they stick out. I had always considered the front of a lower jaw to be a "chin".

This is why it bothers me when artists add chins to animalistic characters. It looks so wrong. An example:

Like, shit. Cool character design but you gave the cat lady a chin. Cats don't have chins, why did you give her a chin?

If I am not mistaken, according to the grammatical scrolls, having a chin makes everyone .. chinese

TIL LeafyIsHere isn't human after all...

Have you seen humans without chins? That's why

Would you mate with somebody who didn't have a chin? Chins are sexy.

All of the the three little pigs had a chinny chin chin

If other animals don't have chins, they're using a weird definition of chin.

I was gonna say elephants have chins too, as I'm re-watching old QI seasons and they brought up this fact, but upon further research their chins aren't true chins with a bony protrusion.

I just read here this morning, that beards are for protection of the neck...

Duh it's where.our chin horn used to be...

Some humans even have double

Useful in fighting as it helps protect the lower jaw and teeth?

But then again, it could simply be a trait we have developed over the millennia, and there is no deeper meaning to it.

Well, you can't take it on the chin if you don't have one I suppose.

This was a good, short read. Worth the time.

I read somewhere sometime ago that the theory that makes the most sense is that we evolved chins to take a punch, which animals besides our immediate evolutionary relatives do not do.

So we evolved chins as an evolutionary advantage over our immediate evolutionary relatives who would logically be competing for the same resources.

Yet again proving Chads are the pinnacle of evolution

I'm gonna guess the same reason we have big knuckles/fists and men have facial hair. Fighting.

Because of mewing. Every sigma knows this.

It's for punching. 🤣

Otherwise we couldn't chin up.

Except for Cowboy Cerrone. No chin on him at all heh.