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Re: Evolution and the Hymen
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2012, 08:28:40 am »
chimpanzees, elephants, manatees, whales, and horses all apparently have them. But I couldn't begin to tell you about them. Maybe the chimps if I set my mind to it and studied it.

If there's someone who is more knowledgeable about the above animals then maybe they can help and I welcome their knowledge. Anything outside of primates is beyond me for the most part (unless it's wolves and snakes).

Elephants and manatees are so distantly related to all the other mammals above that it's likely a primitive condition for most placental mammals.

Which means it's been around anywhere from the Late Jurassic to the Early Paleocene depending on phylogeny, so it's unlikely to be vestigial.

In them you mean?

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Re: Evolution and the Hymen
« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2012, 06:05:43 pm »
chimpanzees, elephants, manatees, whales, and horses all apparently have them. But I couldn't begin to tell you about them. Maybe the chimps if I set my mind to it and studied it.

If there's someone who is more knowledgeable about the above animals then maybe they can help and I welcome their knowledge. Anything outside of primates is beyond me for the most part (unless it's wolves and snakes).

Elephants and manatees are so distantly related to all the other mammals above that it's likely a primitive condition for most placental mammals.

Which means it's been around anywhere from the Late Jurassic to the Early Paleocene depending on phylogeny, so it's unlikely to be vestigial.

In them you mean?

I meant that if it's been around for that long, it would probably have been lost completely rather than being retained.

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Re: Evolution and the Hymen
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2012, 06:11:29 pm »
Ah. Yeah, I'm not sure the hymen itself is. But, I'm not an expert in that area (herf derf).

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