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Humans didn't invent agriculture (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago

Makes total sense: who's working for whom? Is wheat making an effort to till the soil and find fertiliser to help us grow, or is it the other way round?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

This is like the question I've always asked about getting sick.

Do you produce extra mucous because your body is trying to get rid of what's making you sick or does the illness make you produce more mucous in order to spread more easily?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

I suspect the serious answer is that we produce mucus and sneezing as a natural response to microbes, and that's the environment within which microbes have evolved to take advantage of the mucus and sneezing

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Survival of the fittest does not work with intent.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It does if I kill loads of stuff

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure this is exactly correct. I read the Kurzgesagt book Immune recently and it was a fascinating view into how our bodies are really the result of ancient warfare, with constant oneupmanship between us and the environment.

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