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the only muscle group evolution built specifically so you could run, then sit on it

means The buttocks; the fleshy, muscular part of the body you sit on, also used informally for the rear end of anything or the unused stub of something like a cigarette.

from A tangle of related Old English and Germanic words. The 'rear end' sense traces back to words like buttock, from Old English buttuc meaning 'end, strip of land,' tied to a Germanic root for something blunt or thick (a cousin of 'butt' meaning 'thicker end' and the verb 'to butt,' to push with the head). The 'cigarette stub' sense is the same idea of a blunt leftover end. So whether it's the end of a rifle, the end of a smoke, or the end of you, it all circles back to 'the blunt, thick, terminal bit.'

biggest muscle
Gluteus maximus is the body's largest single muscle
running engine
Powers upright sprinting, faded in our ape cousins
fat bank
Stores fat your brain may borrow during development
recognition spot
Brains have neurons partly tuned to seeing rears
sitting tax
Pressure here causes most pressure sores in bedridden patients
for instance

bootylicious — beyoncé's 2000 hit single from destiny's child that became a cultural phenomenon

big butt theory — 2014 viral video by sir mix-a-lot parodying the big bang theory opening

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