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?
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It’s in the primal parts of our brains. Spiders and snakes are dangerous so it’s advantageous to be afraid of them…..more so when we lived outside or mainly in tropical areas
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