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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.
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?
Ancient population suffers from massive viral load, causing such catastrophic damage that the whole surviving population carries some of the viral DNA fragments with it to this day.
Being alive is the reward.
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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
Ohhhh, so it's this DNA thing and not the fact that my Daddy didn't love me?
Ohhhh, so it's this DNA thing and not the fact that my Daddy didn't love me?
Ohhhh, so it's this DNA thing and not the fact that my Daddy didn't love me?
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somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior
I dunno, a mania in the context of a major hunt or battle could really drive a tribe, I think, both in their mania and a lack of fear of death.
Thinking mania can be controlled like an on-off switch.
Why even bother posting?
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somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior
They would be constantly vigilant and unpredictable to someone unfamiliar with that particular trait. When wandering you might only have yourself as a reference so they would be a counter to that
If they've even lived long enough, no absolutely not. Unless you think someone who is routinely depressed is 'vigilant'.
[Hypo]mania is not the primary state of a bipolar patient. Can't speak to schizophrenia, but for those I've seen with that illness, functioning isn't their primary state, either.
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?