[HN Gopher] Sweet-potato washing revisited: 50th anniversary of ...
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       Sweet-potato washing revisited: 50th anniversary of the Primates
       article (2015)
        
       Author : dang
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-04-26 16:16 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | ars wrote:
       | So what behaviors do humans do without being aware there is no
       | reason for it?
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       | (It doesn't count if the human knows there might not be a
       | purpose, and they are just doing it be like others.)
       | 
       | I guess it would have to be something only some humans do,
       | because if everyone does it unaware, then there's no one
       | available to tell them that :)
        
         | Infernal wrote:
         | There are so many meanings of the word reason. I suspect you
         | mean the sense that is like "justification". Consider, the only
         | reason I have for looking at hacker news right now, is because
         | I know lots of my peers are as well, though I don't consider
         | this consciously/rationally. But if my peers (along some
         | dimension) weren't here, I surely wouldn't be.
        
         | aaaaaaaaaaab wrote:
         | circumcision
        
         | mattparcens wrote:
         | microservices
        
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