Website review: The Best Cure for Hiccups: Remind Y...
JavaFox discovered this in Evolution
•10 reviews since Feb 25, 2008
evolution, science
•blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/evolution...
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JavaFox discovered 5 months ago- Never heard this explanation before!
- Lambdoid rated 5 months ago
- I've often wondered why we get hiccups and this is the first plausible explanation I've heard. I'm going to have to look into it further. I just don't trust the Guardian or any newspaper as a source of reliable information, apart from the Daily Sport.
- Jecrell rated 5 months ago
- Good old McMarrow, I'm sure you'll have a laugh over that comment once the evolution denial fad is over. I wonder if expressing my humanity will actually cure the hiccups though. :D
- Birks79 rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "Hiccups are triggered by electric signals generated in the brain stem. Amphibian brain stems emit similar signals, which control the regular motion of their gills. Our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are, according to Shubin, essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing."
- maxatchertsey rated 5 months ago
- A bit hard to swallow?
- Lilynia rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "Luckily, you do eventually stop trying to breathe through your gills when it dawns on your brain that you are actually a modern human, not a prehistoric fish." Haha! My brain is so silly. What's even more funny is McMarrow's comment below me. You kidder!
- McMarrow rated 5 months ago
- It is an interesting explaination but it assumes that evolution is actually real.
- rotemlam rated 5 months ago
- Hiccups have been discovered to be an amphibian phenomenon, inherited from our amphibian ancestors.
- Beasthunter rated 5 months ago
- Fascinating, and makes perfect sense. I wonder what other atavistic instincts we still have, buried deep in our subconscious?
