(October 29, 2012 at 5:29 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Male nipples are an example of design economy. A female’s breast tissue is just as useless as male’s until puberty, meaning the embryonic stage is not the diverging point. This is crucial because it requires random evolutionary processes to develop the nipple before milk came along.
This here... I read it a while ago on my phone and wanted to reply properly, but forgot...
Here goes.
Oh dear, you clearly know nothing about mammalian evolution.
There are some examples of mammals which do not have nipples, but lactate. So, first you had lactation, and then, later, a clump of pores became specialized and presto, you get present day nipples.
I introduce you to the ultimate living proof of evolution:
The Platypus!
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ani...ypus-maybe Wrote:5. The Platypus has no nipples.
I have nipples. I am a man, I do not lactate, yet I have nipples. This makes me the exact opposite of the female platypus. The female platypus does lactate... and does feed its young with mother’s milk... but without nipples. So how, you might ask, does the mother platypus get the milk into the mouths of her demon spawn? The same way you get sweat in your belly button, my friend... the very same way.
The milk is literally secreted through pores in the platypus' skin where it pools up along grooves in the mother's abdomen, ready to be licked up by the eager little offspring.