Posted on 07/14/2016 11:29:54 PM PDT by SpaceBar
A fear of spiders could be something we are born with rather than something we learn, according to a new scientific study.
Research suggests that arachnophobia could be sown into our DNA as a result of survival instincts developed by our ancestors millions of years ago in Africa.
The research suggests that spiders presented such a powerful threat to the survival of the first humans that the ability to spot them became an evolutionary necessity.
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You’ll get no argument from me
I almost stepped on this hell spawn while barefoot day before yesterday. It was huge! My wife asked me if I was going to try to edit out the red-eye. I told her, "You can't edit out the evil!" Any ideas on what it is? I'm in north-central Texas in a fairly rural area. Too big to be a wolf spider or grass spider. I actually didn't kill it. I figured it eats mosquitoes, and that's fine by me.
That’s a tarantula.
Dire Wolf spider.
Tarantulas are relatively non-venomous, but give a painful bite. And yes, scary looking.
This proves that my DNA is not of this world.
Looks like a species of fishing spider to me.
PS. Bats eat the most mosquitoes out of any insectivore, IINM.
I thought it was our 96.5 basal temperature.
Crazy Indian (American type) named Mayfield used to bring them into our barracks in El Toro and on deployment to Fallon Nevada.
Would creep us out holding them, letting them crawl all over his hands. Never go bit until he dropped one and then picked it up.
Crazy damn Injun.......
I don’t know what it is.
But I suggest you take off, and nuke the site from orbit.
Only way to be sure.
Yeah, but you like snakes, so the jury is out................
I’ve often wondered if spider DNA is not of this world, myself.
After some caving in college with friends, bats never really bothered me. Breathing their moldy guano is far more dangerous than the animal itself. A bat will never, under normal circumstances, fly into or attack a human. And they can move faster than you.
Saved... in the nick of time.
Just when I was beginning to think I was the missing link, they’ve proven I’m a human after all.
So confusing...
“:^)
“You know what it could be? Past-life experience intruding on present time.”
- Dr. Ray Stantz
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