taillessness

English

Etymology

From tailless +‎ -ness.

Noun

taillessness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being tailless; lack of a tail.
    • 2024 March 23, Mindy Weisberger, “Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place”, in CNN‎[1], archived from the original on 27 March 2024:
      Prior to this study “there were many hypotheses about why hominoids evolved to be tailless,” the most common of which connected taillessness to upright posture and the evolution of bipedal walking, said lead study author Bo Xia, a research fellow in the Gene Regulation Observatory and principal investigator at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.

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