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crazyhadron t1_jdqgmxj wrote

Probably because rearing a male child takes way more resources than a female child, so a woman's body would generally abort a male fetus if she was starving and unable to bear the burden.

In modern times, due to access to far better nutrition, this innate adaptation has swung the other way.

Nah, I'm just talking out of my ass.

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Tutorbin76 t1_jdqexgr wrote

That's actually a fascinating/terrifying quirk of human physiology - unless there's CO2 present then so long as you're breathing you have no idea you're suffocating. You just start to feel a bit sleepy and uncoordinated, then doze off and never wake up.

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Atharaphelun t1_jdqdzvg wrote

And in other cases, all the rooms simply opened into and are arranged around a single central courtyard or covered space/atrium, thus the term courtyard house. This was especially ubiquitous in Ancient Rome and China (where the form is still used to this day, called siheyuan). In more complex forms of the courtyard house, there can be more than one courtyard/atrium around which another set of rooms open into.

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nrkbarnetv t1_jdqcj6w wrote

Which does actually work.

Kids won't get x-ray vision, but the increasing need for eye-correction is due to a lack of simulation of the eye muscles.

And lifting chairs will indeed give you "super" strength. In that it'll make you stronger and more coordinated.

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