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Explain Like I'm Five

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I don't understand science or biology well just fyi

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who's to decide what "properly" actually means in an evolutionary context? At some point in the past, this behavior either gave us a survival advantage in since way, it at the very least, didn't hurt our survival chances.