Aches and Pains: You Can Thank Evolution for Them

LiveScience ^ | February 15, 2013 | Charles Choi

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Bad backs, dangerous childbirths, sore feet and wisdom teeth pains are among the many ailments humans face from evolution, researchers say.

In an evolutionary sense, humans are by far the most successful primates on the planet, with a world population close to 7 billion. Humanity owes this success to a number of well-known adaptations, such as large, complex brains and walking upright on two feet. However, there are downsides to these advances as well.

[PastorBooks]

Nothing is more blind than a scientist. Blind, blind, blind.

Well, other than a politician.

[SampleMan]

All animals get aches and pains when they get older. Its just that very, very few of them ever get older.

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maybe it’s the whining and moaning that’s gone up, not the aches and pains.

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"If you want to look for examples of how we're not the result of intelligent design, you don't have to go far — just look at the complicated, uncomfortable way we have babies," said purported scientist Karen Rosenberg of the University of Delaware, with not an inkling of an a priori conclusion.

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Aches and Pains I have found, are a hormonal thing....

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I see. I should blame God for aches and pains?

[tbw2]

True. If aches and pains start to slow an animal down, it gets eaten.

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Dinosaur bones showed even they had arthritis.