Evolution?

Why? Is it because they love their Mum?

"The Mother hauls around the baby until it drops off."

Humans cut the cord...
 
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Counter said:
Why? Is it because they love their Mum?

"The Mother hauls around the baby until it drops off."

Humans cut the cord...
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There you go!

Once the lungs of the new-born start working, the blood flow to the cord quickly shuts off. The cord will then eventually shrivel up and come off in time. The mother usually eats the placenta, which comes out attached to the cord, so only a manageably short length of cord will remain attached to the new-born. This does no harm, as the blood flow is shut off by that time.

Humans are impatient: we often don't wait for the placenta (afterbirth) to come out, so we tie off the cord and cut it, to be able to handle the baby freely while the mother is still working on getting rid of the placenta.
 
sideshowbob said:
That's what I figured. Didn't it occur to the OP that all placental mammals ought to have their placenta attached to something?
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Yeah I chose to ignore the obvious come-on in the title. Counter is mad as a box of frogs, so I thought it better to just point him in the direction of some facts.
 
exchemist said:
so I thought it better to just point him in the direction of some facts.
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I think Counter took your advice and looked it up.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/animals-deal-umbilical-cord-placenta-baby-born/
chimpanzee mothers are said to ignore the matter entirely, and simply haul around baby, placenta and cord until the latter dries up and drops off (usually in about a day).
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Counter's quote...
"The Mother hauls around the baby until it drops off."

On the above link page there's talk of eating the placenta...
Other than certain modern humans, some marine mammals (like whales and dolphins), chimpanzees and a few domesticated animals, mammal mothers typically eat the afterbirth.
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Now look at the subheading on that page...''Feed your Brain'' Yuk,Yuk,Yuk
 
Counter might simply have asked himself how humans managed before the invention of scissors.
Perhaps ancestral humans didn't have belly buttons?

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Oh. This is a Creationist rant? Ah. So the "logic" would be that humans always had scissors?
 
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