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We don't definitively know, but it is worth noting that other great apes, our closest relatives, also do not have tails. Perhaps at some point in the evolution of these primates, tails became useless or even inconvenient. Remember if a certain feature becomes useless natural selection will eventually make it disappear over time. Especially as our ancestors started walking upright on two legs, they balanced themselves well and wouldn't have needed a tail.

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