How come our bodies can take a beating with punches, slaps, etc., but if we touch a hot pan even for half a second, you get burned and your skin starts blistering immediately?
In: Biology
I want you to stop and think. When was the last time you saw a fire that wasn’t man made?
When was the last time you saw something that was as hot as stove that was completely natural.
Unless you’re living right next to a volcano, you’re not likely to see such things very often at all.
And not many people live right next to a volcano.
However pretty much everyone gets bruises every now and again, and we aren’t even hunting stuff with our bare hands.
So evolution made it a priority, animals that couldn’t really survive a bruising died out, those that could thrived.
Not much advantage to an animal resisting a fire much, at least not one without significant trade offs.
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