Why are our bodies not capable of regrowing limbs but can regenerate skin after a scrape or bone after a fracture?

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Why are our bodies not capable of regrowing limbs but can regenerate skin after a scrape or bone after a fracture?

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There are no mammals which can regrow lost limbs. That’s an incredibly complicated evolutionary function which requires architecture our lineage just doesn’t have. So we can’t, even though we would benefit from it.

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