7th March 2006, 1:17 PM
Male nipples are simply a result of the unplanned nature of evolution. Females and males are linked in most ways, and there has, as of yet, been no evolutionary pressure to allocate the genes responsible for nipples to the female gender specifically.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)