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Why Do Humans Have Butts?
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Well, we accidentally uploaded two videos today and they’re both about butts and I feel like that says it all. Anyway, support us on Patreon.
One for each cheek.
Everything butt truth. :-D
_accidentally_
I feel like butts being made to resist the impact of running is questionable, because if it was the case and we hunted that way then men would have bigger butts, but they are generally small
Uhhh are you bummed about it?
I don't have a butt. Am white guy.
It gives us cushions so we may sit for longer and think more detailed thoughts. We are also the only species to willingly shift between fast and slow twitch muscles. So it is useful for physical and mental purposes.
so we can shake them to a funky beat. simple.
;) I definitely can’t do that yeah yeah yeah
To sit.
Butt, why?
Nature knew we'd become gamers all along, plus it's sexy jeje
Interesting
Michael be looking pretty swole. Thicc, broad across the beam, you know
Humans have butts to sit
I wanted to thank my butt but someone stole it.
we are the "it fallows" of nature
But, why do women have bigger butts than men?
Why tf am I watching this
Fertility.
Why don't you have brain?
All the puns 😂😂😂 I was laughing my ass off several times through this video
0:07 THE JOKES MAN!
But are butts leggs?
haha "asset"
Lmao who’s all double cheeked up on the thumbnail? 😂
😊
Because they’re are two types of men and one half wouldn’t exist without butts
Don't gorillas have big butts too?
How do our butts compare to other fast running bipeds like ostriches? Why do they run faster if our butt muscles are comparatively larger? Do differing routes of natural selection play a role? Thank you.
well i’ll be dammed. i have a coworker who explained the big butt theory in regards to evolution. we all laughed and laughed and laughed. Crazy that he said everything mentioned in this video. Now i have to go back and apologize.
It nice
Idk, some humans have no ass at all.
bro scishow you been getting sus my dude like damn that is sus
Made me think, maybe that's the reason we find them attractive? Good butts == good runner == better hunter?
Blinked more frequently in this video
That thick booty and big brain social planning skills is like our viper strike and our ability to make tools is our sharp teeth and claws. We're the most unique predator on the planet. We're just built different
So it has nothing to do with mating? lol
Heel running is only done by people wearing thick soled shoes and might actually be bad for you. If you look at undeveloped tribes or people who choose to live as their ancestors did, you see that they run on the balls of their feet, not their heels. Heel running is a recent development and is unlikely to be indicative of anything evolutionarily selected for.
Nah evolution just wanted us to play with them
Not my girlfriend.
Is this the same guy?
I actually saw the title of this video and said: "what an excellent question"
So we can make money like Kim Kardashian 🤣
Gluteus Monstrous
'Why Do Humans Have Butts?' - To attract other humans, who also have butts.
But..
Yeah it's a _Cheeky_ question
So the real title of this video should be why do we have fat asses...I mean assets.
Wait! Wait! Wait! How does not this address the controversial topic of butt being or not being legs????
For us to eat 👁⭕️👁
"Asset"
My butt would like to thank all of the girl butts out there. THANK YOU🍑
S W O L E
The real question is.... Is Butt legs?
I just pat on my butt...
"big butts are pretty uniquely human" so you're saying i'm n-not human!?
I had to do physical therapy for bursitis in my knee and a couple of these exercises are focused on the butt. Made me think about the importance of the glutes. Now this video confirms it with awesome puns 😅
Hell yeah. This video made me appreciate my butt a lot more than usual
The M. Gluteus Medius is actually most important to walk on 2 feet and to climb steps etc.
Butts have a far greater biological purpose than this. They are central to human arousal.
Butts are fascinating Asset of humans.
What about horses? I feel like they're one of the only animals besides us who have obvious and beefy "cheeks." Could it be for the same reasons, or do they serve a different purpose? (besides looking funny.)
Why would evolution grant us such an ASSet?
Well, the fat on the butts may not have an explanation now, butt sure it helps in sexual selection, even for this day, humans are just obsessed with this thing around our hole
In other words, “What’s a butfor?”
Just chasing someone until they die requires endurance, but very little intelligence, and it being the main driving factor for us to benefit a massive glucose-hoarder (which at 2% of the body total weight alone consumes 1/5 of our required calories) is questionable. Think about that you also have to run home to feed your kids as well, which for at least the first 10 years suck at running a marathon and constantly complains about being tired of running. To know what you can eat in a widespread landscape (identification), how to store different foods between seasons (planning), and teach your offspring these skills requires brainpower. Meat was certainly required to get enough calories, but I find it unlikely to be the driving factor to develop a big brain. Someone in the comment section mentioned squats as a possible reason for the big butt. It could have been that early humans dug for tubers and other starchy foods (would explain the amount of amylase in our saliva) which certainly requires a lot of sitting and standing to dig up and gather when the only tools you got is a stick and your hands. Almost every human is a lazy non endurance runner, but we do like to sit.
Good buts dubject
Isn't latisimus dorsi the biggest muscle in our body?
I miss Michael's banana stripe :c
This is literally a channel made to answer our 3am questions😃
I can say with absolute certainty that humans probably have butts cuz sitting for long periods without a butt hurts your tailbone and butt bones. I know from experience. =P
To be the peaks to our valley of stench Stench is a weird word, I can't stop looking at it, it doesn't seem real. Anyway, I'm calling butts stench trenches from now on
To gently cradle our food waste dispenser
Humans: watch videos about butts and make puns Also humans: capable of chasing down prey to exhaustion
Prison School already did that lol
Fer sh!ttin
Probably my favorite episode
OMG the PUNS
It makes cleaning up after a poo a lot more difficult. Did homo erectus have toilet paper?
Looking pretty fat bro
Why do humans have butts? Because BUTT IS LEGS! and legs are useful for running away!
Any idea how quadruped Butts (like Dogs) compared to bipedal animals (like Humans)? I'm guessing humans have more developed glutes, but is an interesting question.
1:24 @SciShow "As your heel hits the ground with each stride" That would be true, IF ancient humans were running in Nikes/Puma/..Shoes. Since they didn't (or so I was told) they were coming on ground with their forefeet. As do we when we run without shoes. Everything else hurts our knees and joints in the long run. I was kinda surprised you missed that.
But i don't have any. Is it ok?
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it is legs then
Cardi B's got mad balance
Butt is legs.
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Only 20 seconds in and... sooo many puns xD
I'm watching this cuz i have exams tomorrow
without butts, we wont enjoy sitting so much :P thanks, butts!
The puns are strong with this one...
Yo! Getting biggy
Butt is legs!
BUT, barefoot running doesn't rely on slamming the heel into the ground. It's more about reaching out with the ball of the foot and pulling yourself forward. It's vastly different from how we running shoes. So, do the gluteus maximus still get used in the same way?
But is butt legs? Is butt legs?!?
Yes the clapping of them cheeks would scare any prey we chased down knowing they would be caught soon.
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My ancestors didn't come from apes....
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So many butt puns
Lmao, gluteus maximus.. Sound like a finishing moves.