Lunch Topics - Nipples
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The few people who have considered this question, including Aristotle and Alexander Graham Bell, have discovered that mammals follow what is now known as the ''one-half rule.'' According to the rule, the average number of young in a litter is one half the typical number of mammaries and the maximum litter size is equal to the total number of mammaries. (Humans conform perfectly to the rule with two breasts and a typical litter size of one-half that, and a standard maximum litter size, without fertility drugs, of two.)
The question is then, why do cows typically have four nipples while normally giving birth to a single calf? Discuss.
posted by Mike @ 3:59 PM
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God provided two teets for the calf and two teets for the dairy farmer.
Or is it two for the calf, two for the cow. I can't remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTzotIScJU
There is a lot to work with in that article. The idea of searching women for extra nipples is interesting. I can't believe we don't hear more about the rogue nipple.
Still, there is no discussion of why human females have breasts all year long instead of only during estrus. Thank Zeus that they do. (Zeus was a breast man obviously).
More later...
Tommy, thanks for that video. I expected something like this from Kendall, but not you!
This whole topic reminds me of a recent, yet fortuitous, typo.
Have you ever tried to go to www.google.com, but replaced the Gs with Bs. Not so safe for work, but you can explain this is for science. Rogue nipple science! Look it up!
Tommy,thanks for the explanation. I new an old dairy farmer would clear things up! And, Jason, thanks for the web browsing tip. I've got it bookmarked.
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