tons of studies link obesity and poor oral hygiene, but none seem to dive much into a causal model oral bacteria have enormous incentives to produce compounds that stimulate your appetite for high glycemic index carbohydrates do we think they *can't* evolve to mind control you
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i mean, if they're linked to depression they're linked to the inverse of depression, right not that we shouldn't assume prima facie that depression must be an adaptation or we wouldn't do so much of it
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what if depression were a way of generating passivity in the face of forces the individual cannot overcome, thereby enhancing the individual's reproductive fitness by avoiding bringing them into conflict with those forces and helping the tribe by giving it a compliant drone
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certainly goes to the whole "evolution is a sadistic tyrant with its fist clenched around your beating heart" viewpoint
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when it comes to evolution i believe everything is just-so that's how i worship our evolutionary protector
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