my homebrew theory is its also so you can smell directionally.
Because then we would cram all sorts of ungodly things up there. We're no better as a species than that.
Can confirm. My fingers have been stuck and gotten stuck in several holes.
You are one big hole?
So one of them can be always fucking blocked.
Don’t develop a cocaine-perforated septum, kids.
So when the crayon gets stuck up one nostril, we can still breathe and run for Congress.
Is that similar to why we have a pee hole and a poop hole instead of one big combination hole?
Those two holes are a later evolution found only in some mammals, the therians, and not any other type of animals
But I don’t understand why
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