There are only two types of animals — those which can swim and those which cannot. Why are humans the only creature that has the optional swimming feature they can turn on?
In: Biology
Humans are born being able to swim. If you throw a newborn into water or, more commonly, if they’re born submerged in water they will swim. It’s just that humans’ culture is so “civilized” that the vast majority of us then forget how to swim in the process of learning how to walk and talk and draw with crayons and cut with scissors and all the unnatural things we all do all the time – so we have to re-learn how to swim at some point.
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