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
Your body is specifically evolved to get in fights. Strong cheek and brow bones protect your eyes, a layer of fat above the gut, kidneys in your lower back, the ability to make pointy stick technology. It isn’t perfect for example the mandible, genitals, and ears are easy to damage but evolution has to work with what it’s got and her muse is a fickle bitch.
Burns are not a physical damage like you may think. Instead of the breaking of blood vessels, tissue, and bones from fighting, burns cause the molecules that make up your body to just fall apart. Cell membranes will melt, proteins will unwind, in extreme cases you will actually start to see the skin begin to burn. There is not any real reason for humans to evolve resistance to this. How many places in the wild would we have been force to be burned? I can think of very few. Not enough to dictate an advantage for resistance to it.
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