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ThanQ! to Rand Simberg for the pointer toward Carl Zimmer's new blog, The Loom. Zimmer may have explained why my stomach has felt shriveled all week as I attempt to deal with the final exit of The Tennant from Hell.A lot of evidence now suggests that human feelings were built in a similar fashion on top of more ancient systems for sensing the state of the body ...Disgust is an ancient response that keeps many animals away from bad-smelling food; some evidence suggests that we are morally disgusted by bad behavior, we borrow some of the same circuitry.
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