Why Don’t Humans Have Penis Bones?
Most other mammals have penis bones, so why don t we? Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطا الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/14/why-dont-humans-have-a-penis-bone-scientists-may-now-know-baculum https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-humans-have-no-penis-bone/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3650806/ http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1844/20161736 https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/4/644/2198249 https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/4/635/2198296 https://www.britannica.com/science/baculum http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/08/a-most-interesting-bone/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12229/abstract http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/03/a-long-lost-bone/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0215/abstract http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/2012/11/26/how-did-man-lose-his-penis-bone/ https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-abstract/63/1/1/868491 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2907.2002.00112.x/abstract http://mentalfloss.com/article/69282/8-hard-facts-about-penis-bone http://www.pnas.org/content/106/Supplement_1/10025.full http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/science/monogamys-boost-to-human-evolution.html http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2164/jandrol.04145/full https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg774 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pika_in_Nipesotsuyama.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_male_chimp.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armand_de_Montlezun_(1841-1914)_Bacalum_terre-neuve.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raccoonpenisbone.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lab_mouse_mg_3263.jpg
