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===2. The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing and health maintenance.===
===2. The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing and health maintenance.===
[[Charles Darwin]] (1859) observed that survival of the fittest caused evolution. The [[foreskin]] was created and improved by [[Evolution of the foreskin| evolution]] to provide protection of the [[penis]] from both [[trauma]] and [[infection]].
[[Charles Darwin]] (1859) observed that survival of the fittest caused evolution. The [[foreskin]] was created and improved by [[Evolution of the foreskin| evolution]] to provide protection of the [[penis]] from both [[trauma]] and [[infection]]. Fleiss, Hodges & Van Howe (1998) enumerated numerous ways in which the foreskin protects against [[infection]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fleiss
|first=
|init=PM
|author-link=Paul M. Fleiss
|last2=Hodges
|first2=
|init2=FM
|author2-link=Frederick M. Hodges
|last3=Van Howe
|first3=
|init3=RS
|author3-link=Robert S. Van Howe
|etal=no
|title=Immunological Functions of the Human Prepuce
|journal= Sex Transm Infect
|date=1998-10
|volume=74
|issue=5
|pages=364-7
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/fleiss3/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=10195034
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1136/sti.74.5.364
|accessdate=2026-03-18
}}</ref>


===3. Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated.===
===3. Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated.===