TIL there's a growing body of literature showing that your performance in a range of cognitive and motor tasks seems to improve when immersed chest-deep in water e.g.http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202284 …
I skimmed the intro and discussion and I don't see it mentioned... Weird because it seems to be a likely mechanism from my ignorant perspective...?
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Looking at the references there is more research into this so perhaps I should look there but I'm too busy to get sucked in.

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More here for an overview https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex …
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Maybe no water got on their faces though.

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Anyway, they should mention Archimedes at least!
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A far more plausible mechanism: We are descended from fish-people.https://open.spotify.com/track/56C7rBk3rrZ0bsm029Esw0?si=Y8itQ5cVQXS2mzf_sCMg8A …
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