![]() ![]() ![]() So what exactly is the purpose? When your tighty-whities are run up the flagpole, what exact proud purpose does your grey matter think it’s achieving by barking out the orders to send all the blood in your body to your face? Darwin is, of course, dead, so we don’t have the luxury of contacting him, outside the scope of a powerful mystic, to ask his opinion on why our body decided to respond this way to the experience of taking a loud and violent shit in the work bathroom. In fact, if the purpose of evolution is to further propagate the species and your own bloodline, remembering getting rejected over AOL Instant Messenger in high school seems to be doing no one any favors in that regard. However, Scientific American pushes back on this, mentioning the fact that the emotion of guilt, separate from shame, is what serves such a purpose. Some people have argued that shame was developed in order to keep humans acting in accordance with social norms, required for acceptance into civilization versus being tied to a rock outside. Not after everyone make fun of Grug tight, sexual pants. Even in prehistoric days, you’d think the Neanderthals most blase about tripping another dude while running from a pack of velociraptors would be the ones who stuck around. Have you ever seen a picture of Jeff Bezos looking directly into the camera? It feels like he just stole a year from your life. Take a look into most highly successful people’s dead shark eyes for evidence. What, exactly, about our brain, felt a jolt when some caveman’s loincloth got caught on the underbrush, revealing his club and boulders, and thought, “This is important, I must hold onto it forever”? In a real way, a lack of shame, and emotion in general, suggests more success, at least in our modern world. Whether it came from a magic fruit or biological development, it sure seems like an unpleasant bit for your brain to devote valuable electrical activity to. Even the most religious of people talk about shame as the original nightmare, forcing Adam and Eve to cover up their respective danglers post-bite of the apple in the Garden of Eden. Particularly the seemingly useless emotion of shame. Yet, it seems there is a price to pay for the high level of brain function and cognitive thought that brought us cities an elephant can’t kick over: feeling things all the time. Though not confirmed, it would also make sense that their protective shell comes from balancing the difficulties of being slow as fuck and made of meat, without being the world’s easiest meal. Tortoises that had it made, living in a dreamland where the ground was covered in plentiful food, had no need for this, and had a simple dome-shaped shell. Tortoises that needed to raise their head to eat sources of food such as tree cactus as well as fight over limited resources began to evolve a shell that curved up around the neck and allowed for this vertical movement more easily, known as saddle-back tortoises. As with some of the most revolutionary theories, once discovered, it made perfect logical sense: That over a massive timeline, mutations among a species that give them an advantage in survival will naturally be preferred, will selectively propagate and eventually become the norm.įor example, he observed subtle differences in the shells of tortoises depending on where they tended to get their food. When he wasn’t uncontrollably vomiting or producing severely ill children with his wife/first cousin Emma, he was furthering our understanding of the natural world in an incredible way with his research on evolution. Charles Darwin is undoubtedly one of the greatest scientists of all time. ![]()
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