question about the heart

[kid908]

how did this:
http://biosphere.biologydaily.com/help/images/a366024055e25bfcd7ffb9005e0fcaa0-5409.jpeg

turn into this:
http://www.tailgatershandbook.com/Images/Heart.jpg

[dark57]

Take out the veins and arteries ands it becomes more clear.

[Syuusuke]

He's talking about its shape...how it went from a crude looking human organ to a seemingly acceptable traditional love symbol...

The most ridiculous but relevant answer is that if you look at the human heart upside down it almost resembles that other one...without that little inward-ness.

This might help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(symbol)

[dark57]

Well thats how i saw it.

[Heathen]

Actually, its a symbol of love.

The whole connection to love and the heart is because the "butterfly" feeling you get was seen as in your heart so they were associated.

The shape symbolizes a connection or partnership because of the symmetry.

:eng101:?

[Corndogman]

I though it was because it looked like upside-down testicles, and as everyone knows, you feel love in your testicles.

[dark57]

I though it was because it looked like upside-down testicles, and as everyone knows, you feel love in your testicles.
Does that mean girls feel it in there...

[Heathen]

Does that mean girls feel it in there...
Yes, girls feel love in your testicles.

[dark57]

Yes, girls feel love in your testicles.
I wont argue with that.

[Reaper Man]

The shape is based upon two swans who put their heads together.. something about them being monogamous too.

http://www.actwin.com/kalostrader/Swans.jpg

[nooBBooze]

I heard that since autopsies were illegal back in the Dark Ages, it was assumed that chicken hearts resemble the human heart and thus the stylized chicken heart became became the symbol for its human counterpart.
Back then it was also assumed much of the mental capacities of man reside in the heart but a more probable explanation as to why the mental phenomenon of love was connected with the symbol of a heart would be that the anxieety felt when around a cherished one primarily expresses itself via a quicker pulse.
Associating love with the [sped up] heartbeat also bears tribute to this explanation

[...]as everyone knows, you feel love in your testicles. as surely sometimes a rapid pulse not only serves the fight or flight instinct but is also used to supply a BONER with the additional blood it needs to allow for CONSENSUAL VAGINAL INTERCOURSE IN THE MISSIONARY POSITION.

:eng101:

[Saggy]

Apparently it came from an extinct North African plant.

http://www.slate.com/id/2159800/?GT1=9129

[ExAm]

Others suggest it could be because when you turn it upside down it looks like a woman's bum.:v:

[Heathen]

Your womens bums look like testicles?

[teh lag]

Your womens bums look like testicles?

Your testicles look like womens' bums?

[Heathen]

yes

[n00b1n8R]

Others claim that he drinks motor oil and that you can sexually arouse him by honking your horn.

Wait, wrong discussion.