Amateur question: if we've retained these ostensibly dangerous or at least deleterious viral codes in our DNA, is there any reason why these virii don't serve a important evolutionary or remedial (maybe crisis) purpose?
Men who were prone to alternative/extreme states of consciousness would have been better able to summon up the wild emotions necessary for savagery and violence, making them better fighters and hence giving them better mating prospects.
Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
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Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#82Amateur question: if we've retained these ostensibly dangerous or at least deleterious viral codes in our DNA, is there any reason why these virii don't serve a important evolutionary or remedial (maybe crisis) purpose?
Men who were prone to alternative/extreme states of consciousness would have been better able to summon up the wild emotions necessary for savagery and violence, making them better fighters and hence giving them better mating prospects.
Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#83Amateur question: if we've retained these ostensibly dangerous or at least deleterious viral codes in our DNA, is there any reason why these virii don't serve a important evolutionary or remedial (maybe crisis) purpose?
Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Men who were prone to alternative/extreme states of consciousness would have been better able to summon up the wild emotions necessary for savagery and violence, making them better fighters and hence giving them better mating prospects.
somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior
Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Men who were prone to alternative/extreme states of consciousness would have been better able to summon up the wild emotions necessary for savagery and violence, making them better fighters and hence giving them better mating prospects.
somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior
Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Men who were prone to alternative/extreme states of consciousness would have been better able to summon up the wild emotions necessary for savagery and violence, making them better fighters and hence giving them better mating prospects.
somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior
Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Men who were prone to alternative/extreme states of consciousness would have been better able to summon up the wild emotions necessary for savagery and violence, making them better fighters and hence giving them better mating prospects.
somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior
Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#88Re: Viral DNA in the human genome linked to major psychiatric disorders
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Men who were prone to alternative/extreme states of consciousness would have been better able to summon up the wild emotions necessary for savagery and violence, making them better fighters and hence giving them better mating prospects.
somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior