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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Goosebumps have a social utility: https://t.co/jZYx3iYAJ7

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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Stop relegating priestship to Darwin & his ideas in quest to status signal evolution. You're perpetuating scientism.https://t.co/24M7aCdwSw https://t.co/sIgaxQsIeF

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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We don't use muscles to rotate our ears anymore because neural circuits co-opted for smiling + social food response.https://t.co/yBw4yJ5V2K

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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If you keep digging at it, you see many of these ideas are vestigial of past blindspots in scientist's groupthought.https://t.co/A2XqqDc4cm https://t.co/p4F9nQFKil

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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Why not just use direct evidence: breathing response in mammals uses same system design as amphibian. https://t.co/2feDtQMJyZ https://t.co/e5iRDaaxPe

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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Stop perpetuating Groupthink. Stop insisting idea of vestigial hiccup is even settled. That's not how science works.https://t.co/u9LeD1X4C1 https://t.co/tJ6iWpn4pr

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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SMH: evolution cheerleader using vestigial organ arguments & mirroring thinking failure of creationist's god-of-the-gaps. (ﾉ °益°)ﾉ 彡 ┻━┻

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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[Anti-Ingroup] is [Outgroup Slur]. Boost [Ingroup narrative] for prestige maintenance & allegiance signaling. Shun nonbelievers. #cargocult

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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Maybe I'm a Neo-Darwinist and my ingroup has schismed?What makes me emotionally charged over this?https://t.co/Je10PVUFlc https://t.co/R0WlqWBqgw

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Old ideas, like existing genes, are selectively remixed+destroyed, often building scaffolds for others to grow upon.https://t.co/WQotucH287

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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Hiccups Tho... https://t.co/MzjddfkF87 https://t.co/Zc3xRfxCJt

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10/16/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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Caused by compression in the vagal nerve during pregnancy?https://t.co/tC1AXqGePX https://t.co/Rcqc9H8i3m

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
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I bet we could cure this person's ~hiccups~ with vagal nerve stimulation. https://t.co/MbBkWFQyPY https://t.co/4wS7gWvewU

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