[MSL]

Human nails and apes' nails question

  I wondered about it long time ago. OK, you know that if you don't cut your nails, they will grow to this level: http://www.funinstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/4.-Amazing-Lady-with-Long-Nails_www.FunInStorecom.jpg and even more (I saw longer before). But the apes do not cut their nails and every time they have got almost perfect nails. What's the reason? Their nails do not grow up so fast or something else? I want to know.

[MSL]

  This is what I learned about this problem so far (from a person nicknamed 3226 in Voat.co):
 People aren't living in a forest foraging for food. (Of course not.) We're part of a human society, where we doesn't have to do anything that would wear down or break our nails (in case we want them very long, if we deliberately try to grow them in this way).
 Apes' nails would grow that long, but they keep them short. They bite them. For all we're told that it's a bad habit (and it really is!), it's actually the way we've always been taking care of our nails until extremely recently.
 

[SEO]

Very good to know!