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The scrotum has all the marks of successive bad, hacky evolutionary patching.

Problem: Warm-bloodedness means the testicles are now too warm to work well.

Hack #1: Hang them on the outside of the body so they can stay cooler.

New problem resulting from first hack: Now they're much easier to damage.

Hack #2: Make them hurt really bad if they get bashed, so the owner takes great care to guard them.

The proper solution would have to make them more temperature-tolerant in the first place.

Interestingly, ovaries didn't go down this road, though there are certainly some suboptimal designs in that whole system as well.




Don’t forget, they can also torse and twist (just like ovaries, I might add).


I guess we humans are still an evolutionary work in progress. :D


Shudder to think what evolutionary completion looks like...


> Interestingly, ovaries didn't go down this road

A fixed quantity of viable eggs within prime child bearing years until menopause when women would then perform other roles within the community.




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