Why are we born with 2 kidneys if we only technically need one to survive?
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The short answer is that we were created by evolution, not intelligent design. As others mentioned, kidneys can be easily damaged and thus our ancestors who had two were probably more likely to survive to procreate. Alternatively, any mutation that caused our ancestors to have only one kidney wasn’t better at helping them survive to procreate, so it never won out.
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