Thread: Why Do Human's Have Fingernails? What evolutionary purpose do they serve?!?
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Old 04-29-2004, 11:50 PM  
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Originally posted by KRL
I'd imagine when we were all apes way back when the finger nails were claws. Through eons of evolution we no longer needed them as much and they mutated to what they are today.



That's the Guinness Book World's Longest Fingernails record holder.

What the hell does he does when he gets an ear or ass itch to deal with?



hmmmm could have fun with these below ....
Oh man, I remember seeing that guy on the TV show they had awhile ago. Apparantly his hand is permanantly deformed now because of that, and he has to wake up like every 2 hours to change his position so he doesn't break a nail. Crazy.
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