How did we ever survive this long when kids display major anti-survival behaviors? July 21, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,964 |
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Cambion
• The only way babies can communicate is by screaming bloody murder. Certainly it's natural for baby animals of any sort to make noise when they want their mum or just want something, but most baby animals make tiny sounds. Offspring that screech like a siren seems pretty counterproductive - not only in regard to potential enemies/predators, but in regard to food. How could primitive humans sneak up on a deer or whatever to kill it when Junior is turning purple and puking his guts out because he's putting so much effort into screaming for no reason at all?
Re: How did we ever survive this long when kids display major anti-survival behaviors? July 22, 2019 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,576 |
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yurble
Shit. Freud has his theories as to why children are fascinated with their own excrement. From a biology perspective it might not be so bad. Just like dogs will sometimes scarf down shit and gain favorable stomach bacteria from doing it, so might children do the same. There's now a treatment for having colonies of nasty gut bacteria which involves treatments of good bacteria (aka, shit from people with good stomach bacteria). My guess is it is intended to give them access to a wide range of possible bacteria necessary for a healthy gut. When a person is an adult, the risks (getting a nasty bug) outweigh the benefits (seeding the gut bacteria) because the adult should already have a developed gut ecosystem.
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ondinette
The weird thing is even completely normal human toadlers will run towards dangerous things, like a hot oven or busy street.That is what I can't understand. Retards offing themselves to cull the herd makes sense, but why would normal kids behave this way? It doesn't do anything to help the species survive.
Re: How did we ever survive this long when kids display major anti-survival behaviors? July 23, 2019 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,964 |
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yurble
Screaming. I believe there have been studies that show that the screaming is very hard for adults to ignore (can confirm it gets on my nerves immensely) so presumably it gradually evolved precisely because it caused adults to pay attention.
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yurble
Wandering. They are developing their motor skills. In a natural environment there would of course be dangers such as predators and drowning, and no doubt many children were lost that way.
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kman
Past threads discussed the possibility that autards who run away, head for water, and drown, or do other things almost certain to ensure their deaths, might be examples of Darwinism or nature's way of culling the herd. We're talking about nonverbal (unable to speak) fuck trophies who cannot alert rescuers to their location, or who actually run away from rescuers.
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yurble
I would expect humans to have a better understanding of dangers that have existed for millions of years, like predators, fire, water, cliffs, etc. It's still inexplicable that ordinary toddlers have little conception of these dangers, so I can only conclude that they are very, very stupid.
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Cambion
Apparently we became too smart to be born properly, not that you'd be able to tell looking at how some people behave.
Humans are such alpha creatures that they are attracted to danger, either by accident or on purpose (people who skydive and do risky shit). And sometimes they don't know when to quit, which is when they die due to stupid bullshit like being hit by trains or falling to their death because they wanted to pee into the air while dangling off the 75th story of a building.