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by JimmyG on July 10th, 2009
Symmetry.
by Lady Alathia of Vulcan on July 10th, 2009
Because one always gets plugged up when we have a cold, and if we didn't have another air hole, our ears would pop when we cough.
by SABOTEUR on July 10th, 2009
Balance.
by Anonymous on July 10th, 2009
Nobody nose for sure. ;)
by Marky Mark on July 19th, 2009
The human body has vertical symmetry.
by Prunesquallor on July 19th, 2009
Because if there was one big hole it would tend to cave in and block up when we breathed in hard.
by PartRadio loves YOU on July 19th, 2009
Cocaine.
by shrinkess on July 10th, 2009
In case one gets plugged up.
by Sheriff Raff -Answerhag on July 10th, 2009
Two is always better than one.
by Anonymous on July 10th, 2009
In case one gets clogged. This is what happened to Adam version 0.7
by TomFluflu on July 19th, 2009
For the same reason we got two eyes and two ears... stereo effects.
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We can follow the direction a scent is coming at us by unconsciously sensing which nostril gets it first.
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Yes... the nose knows.
by happy friday on July 10th, 2009
easier to breath
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Comments
...though the apparent requirement for bilateral symmetry doesn't rule out a large central passage instead of narrower paired ones. Why not have the same symmetry as the glottis & trachea & the outer nose itself? Of course evolution didn't turn out that way, but my point is symmetry alone doesn't fully explain things.
by xprofessor on July 19th, 2009
I should add that it's kind of a sucker question -- there's no right answer -- because "why" is usually not a scientific question. We can, however, inquire how the anatomy of the human nose evolved since, say, the Cambrian. How, not why. Why is metaphysical.
by xprofessor on July 19th, 2009