Recently smashed my finger and lost the nail and it got me wondering what is the biological / mechanical / etc function / reason for fingernails? Sure it would be harder to grip little things, but is there a structural reason why our digits need these things?
EDIT: Follow up question. What is different about the skin underneath your nail that makes it so painful when initially exposed to air?
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One of the main things about evolution that is commonly misunderstood is that it doesn’t have a “why”. It’s just a long list of accidents that worked.
After those accidents do work, we can try to understand what was successful about them, but there was no why to it.
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