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==What is the real norm?==
In actuality, almost every male infant throughout the world is born with a [[foreskin]]. There is a very rare birth defect called ''[[aposthia]]'' in which the foreskin did not develop normally.
Charles Darwin established that evolution occurs because of "natural selection".<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Darwin
|first=Charles
|init=
|year=1859
|title=The Origin of Species
|url=
|scope=
|location=London
|publisher=Murray
|ISBN=
|accessdate=
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|last=Darwin
|first=Charles
|init=
|year=1871
|title=The Descent of Man
|url=
|scope=
|location=London
|publisher=Murray
|ISBN=
|accessdate=
}}</ref> The other primates also have a foreskin similar to that of humans.<ref><{{REFbook
|last=Cold
|first=
|init=CJ
|author-link=
|last2=Mc Graft
|first2=
|init2=KA
|author2-link=
|year=1999
|title=Anatomy and histology of the penile and clitoral prepuce in primates.
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/cold-mcgrath/
|work=Male and Female Circumcision
|editor=Denniston GC, Hodges FM, Milos MF (eds.)
|edition=
|volume=
|chapter=
|scope=
|page=
|pages=
|location=New York
|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
|ISBN=
|quote=
|accessdate=2025-02-23
|note=
}}</ref> The [[foreskin]] improves fitness because of its many protective, immunological, sexual, and sensory functions.
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