• Question: why wud we have eyebrows and belly buttons

    Asked by molliestephenxo to Alexandra, Dean, Jess, Luisa, Sian on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sian Foch-Gatrell

      Sian Foch-Gatrell answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I think we have eyebrows to keep moisture out of our eyes, the bellybutton is where the umbilical cord is attached so the mother can feed the unborn baby

    • Photo: Dean Whittaker

      Dean Whittaker answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      not my field

    • Photo: Alexandra Kamins

      Alexandra Kamins answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Belly buttons are just the scar left by the umbilical cord, the lifeline that connect a fetus (unborn child) to the mother. When a baby is born, he can’t get his food straight from mum like that, so the umbilical cord gets popped off.

      As for eyebrows, some anthropologists and behavioural biologists think eyebrows help with expressive communication–they make it easier for other people to know how we feel.

    • Photo: Luisa Ostertag

      Luisa Ostertag answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Eye brows: don’t know. (Maybe they make us more attractive to the opposite gender and therfore survived as an evolutionary advantage?)

      Belly buttons: when we are fetuses in our mums bellies we will get all neccessary nutrients via a thing called umbilical cord. This is a ‘pipe’ that connects us (on our belly buttons) with our mum’s placenta. When we are born it will disconnect from the placenta but will still hang on us. The doctor or midwife will then nornally cut it off and everything that remains is a scar – and that’s our belly button.

    • Photo: Jessica Housden

      Jessica Housden answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      They are pretty useful – eyebrows for keeping out sweat and our belly button was where our umbilical cord attached us to our mother and allowed blood and nutrients to feed us in the womb.

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