• Question: What would happen if we didn't have a tailbone?

    Asked by jakeislington to Rob on 14 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Rob Stanley

      Rob Stanley answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      Probably nothing. It’s vestigial, which means that its just something left over, in this case from the tails that our monkey ancestors would have had.

      I’ve just looked it up on Wikipedia, and apparently some muscles do attach to the tailbone.

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