Why are so many humans (myself included) afraid of spiders? Arachnophobia consistently lands in the top 10 most-common phobias. Why? Especially when there aren’t *that* many deadly species of them? Why spiders over other animals?
In: Biology
Its not like its an evolutionary thing that came from learning to avoid venomous spiders. Its a “a cultural phenomenon that is most common in predominantly European societies.”
so most folks are afraid of spiders in the way that some Christians are afraid of the rapture or whatever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia
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