Why do we itch?

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I don’t mean when something is touching you and tickling or irritating your skin, I mean why do we get random itches on parts of us seemingly without any causal stimulus?

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Probably evolutionarily it was better to have some false positives, and occasionally just have a random itchy feeling, vs being a little undersensitive and sometimes not noticing if a bug or parasite was making itself at home on you.

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