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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why do most animals have their eyes, nose, and mouth clustered together in roughly the same way as other species?

Why are the eyes usually horizontally aligned, with a nose centered on the face and a mouth slightly below? What are the benefits of this over say having the eyes and the mouth on opposite ends of the body?
gpt
This doesn't answer ALL the factors you asked about but:

* you want your nose close to the mouth to smell your food (for safety reasons)
* you want your eyes as far forward and as high up as possible for seeing things
* You want your mouth far from the waste-hole
* You want all three of those sensory organs as close to the brain as possible (faster processing AND shorter wires are less likely to get injured. This latter one is actually a big deal. If your eyes were away from your brain, breaking your neck would blind you! If your mouth was away from your head, breaking your back means you physically cant eat because you can't swallow).

You're right, the typical configuration isn't the ONLY solution to the above (and other) requirements riddle, but it's a pretty darn good solution - and evolution is *very* much a fan of "if it's good enough, that's good enough".