/sci/ - Science & Math

Because you cut the nail too short.

>>4599861
So fucking what? Why does this change the direction of where the toenail grows?

because shoes

>>4599856
KILL IT WITH FIRE!

>>4599871
KILL IT WITH FIRE!

>>4599871

>>4599875
>KILL IT WITH FIRE!

I cut my toenails short so I get ingrown toenails, there's nothing like the smell of a tiny piece of tissue that you've kept under your toenail as it slowly collects puss

Evolution does not produce forms that are perfect. It produces forms that are good enough.
Also, we ancestrally didn't clip nails; rather, nails would just wear down and/or break during daily life. Since ingrown nails are associated with nail clipping, there would have been no evolutionary pressure involving ingrown nails.

>>4599871
Fuck off, EK. I use my trip to provide useful information related to geology, evolutionary biology, and paleontology. You use yours to spread your worthless personality.

>>4599885
>that feel

Feels good man

>>4599886
Not too mention an ingrown toenail isn't particularly life threatening so it wouldn't have much of an effect on evolution

>>4599908
Not having an infection is an advantage over having an infection. Evolution cares for more than just life threatening traits.

>>4599856
because you're a dirty fuck

>>4599908
being able to walk and run without wincing in pain is very advantageous

>>4599911
>Evolution cares for more than just life threatening traits.
No it doesn't.

If it doesn't harm your chances of reproducing successfully and those offspring surviving, etc., it doesn't matter.

Did you know that elephants die of starvation? Once their teeth wear down, they just die slowly of starvation. And why shouldn't they? If they were going to reproduce, they had done it already.

>>4599918
I didn't occur in our ancestral environment.
>>4599886

>>4599908
You are unlikely to die from an ingrown toenail, sure. But being caught and eaten by a lion because an ingrown toenail makes running harder and more painful? THAT would have been a legitimate danger.
There's a famous Allosaurus specimen, affectionately dubbed "Big Al", that probably died from a broken toe. Because of the relatively minor injury, it wasn't able to hunt.
Just saying, you need to consider the wider implications.

>>4599928
>It didn't occur
Fixed.

>>4599885
that's toejam and the rest is fucked up.

>>4599923
Um, evolution DOES "care" about more than life-threatening traits. An individual that can survive well in its environment but is sterile will not be passing its genes on! Remember, sterility is not life-threatening.
Also, humans and porpoises are the only known animals in which the females significantly outlive their reproductive span. Why do you think women live so long after menopause? Where's the evolutionary advantage in that? (It's a neat little puzzler if you're curious.)

>>4599865
we are not evolved to cut our toenails too short

>>4599856
It happens because you trim your toenails incorrectly.

>>4599955
You're right, but I did clarify what I meant.

You can get rid of your toenails.

There is some kind of gel a doctor subscribes. You put it on the nail, it softens it, till you can just scratch it all off.

>>4600014
b-b-but the n-nail beds!

>>4600014
Why would anybody want to do that?
nails are important to keep the structure of your digits intact.

Shoes, cutting your toenails instead of letting them be worn out.
In other words, we get ingrown nails because we don't live as we would do in the wild.

>>4599871
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>>4599880

And I thought attention same-fagging is /b/ territory. Well done, /sci/.

>>4599886
This might be one of the most glorious images I've seen on 4chan.

>>4600372
Because some nails are fucking up your feet, and you have to do it.

>>4600553

if you were a wild human, with no understanding in medicine, and you nail hurt horribly and was infected, you could decide to rip it off - and it might have worked.