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

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

Have you seen humans without chins? That's why

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?

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

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

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

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

Some humans even have double

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.

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

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.

TIL LeafyIsHere isn't human after all...

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

Yet again proving Chads are the pinnacle of evolution

To enable the Habsburg dynasty.

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

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.

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

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

Because of mewing. Every sigma knows this.

Otherwise we couldn't chin up.

What else would I stroke while thinking? 🤔

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

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

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

It's for punching. 🤣