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[deleted] t1_j5n9c07 wrote

Reply to comment by BurnOutBrighter6 in eli5 why do you puke when sick by shaela-a-pinetree

i love how the bodies only 2 responses are throw up or die.

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BurnOutBrighter6 t1_j5n9oq4 wrote

Evolution is a lot like engineering: just-good-enough-to-work is the ideal solution. Why worry about creating systems to actually deal with all the types of poisons it could be when you can just have a universal eject function and then eat some food to replenish whatever nutrients you also ejected along with the poison...if it was even poison. Oh well, at least you didn't die to poison, so that's a plus.

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Red_AtNight t1_j5nabtf wrote

If you were a horse, it’d only be one response. They can’t vomit, so when they eat something that gives them an upset stomach… they just die

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