I've been learning some about rabies and learned about rabies causing hydrophobia. This is just a theory, I'm not saying I know anything about this topic to be knowledgeable, but if we could get someone with rabies to not fear water, could they survive?

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah its the prime example that evolution isn't perfect just happy with good enough.

Also a great detriment to the "grand design"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It also illustrates a funny bit of the logic of multicellular non-clonal creatures: the germ line is the species. The other 99.9...% of you is just a fancy delivery mechanism, so it makes sense to add something seemingly super impractical to the anatomy if it slightly helps the sex cells.

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