The Urogenital Paradox: Why Evolution Bundled Recreation with Excretion
From an engineering perspective, the human body contains a baffling design choice: the sewage system runs directly through, or immediately adjacent to, the entertainment complex. Why are the urinary organs (kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra) and the reproductive organs (gonads, uterus, vas deferens, genitalia) so inextricably linked that we collectively term them the Urogenital System? The answer is not one of intelligent design, but of evolutionary history and embryological economy. It is a story of “legacy code” written into our DNA over hundreds of millions of years. ...