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[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 60 points 6 months ago

Did anyone look this up?

[-] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 171 points 6 months ago

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19568753/

They do indeed have more protein. The conclusion that it's for them to fall slower seems to be just a hypothesis

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 36 points 6 months ago

The explanation feels very much like a "just so" story to me, as much as I want to believe it.

[-] boo_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago

I think this is why it's helpful to think of it, not as a 'why', but as a 'how'. There are tons of things about our bodies that do not make sense, but which hasn't killed us enough to not spread. These can still have an effect on us, and that's what's interesting to me.

Trying to get a reason out of evolution can be useful sometimes, when we actually want to know what lead to a trait becoming common, but for most things, especially concerning humans, the 'how' is so much more interesting, because we can actually get concrete answers to that.