First major RCT on evolutionary psychiatry finds mental health clinicians are far more likely to say describing anxiety as an evolved survival response will
The Internet told me the appendix absolutely has a function:
If you get sick and shit the absolute fuck out of everything in your bowels — full colon cleanse the hard way — your appendix holds back a colony of your intestinal support bacteria which serves as a base to recolonize your gut.
This is extremely useful to anyone who lives in a world where illnesses of intense gut-cleansing shitting are a thing.
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Anxiety has a function. Appendix does not and it’s because of another evolutionary success.
The Internet told me the appendix absolutely has a function:
If you get sick and shit the absolute fuck out of everything in your bowels — full colon cleanse the hard way — your appendix holds back a colony of your intestinal support bacteria which serves as a base to recolonize your gut.
This is extremely useful to anyone who lives in a world where illnesses of intense gut-cleansing shitting are a thing.
Now I feel patronized