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“Lab grown meat is the future!”. Wow, really? Any more predictions for us, Pythia? Flying cars?.
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This is still a juvenile understanding. All choices are subject to influence, pressure, coercion. You "consent" to an employment contract under the threat of homelessness. You "consent" to drugs and alcohol after a lifetime of advertisement. Consenting to abuse is still abuse.
Consent is FREELY given. It’s not coerced, it’s not manipulated, it’s not pressured, it is not deceived. It is FREELY given! It can withdrawn at any point btw.
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ngl one of my all time greatest fears all time is pulling a 60ft tapeworm out of my ass
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s starting to think the GOP is anti-women and anti-worker. “There’s women in our party that are really sick and tired of the way men treat Republican women. [The GOP] has turned its back on the workers and just regular Americans.”
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They evolved to be forceful due to the obstetric dilemma — the trouble of passing a human head through the female pelvis. The cost of a failed delivery can be (and is, every day) fatal. Human pregnancy is risky. Traits that mediate risk have other tradeoffs (like preeclampsia).
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Menstrual pain (primary dysmenorrhea) is mediated by prostaglandins, which are inflammatory & do stimulate pain receptors. But they are released to cause contractions of the myometrium (cramping). It is so forceful that it can cause micro-injury and contribute to archimetrosis.
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This is my last statement regarding the troglodyte that not be named. It is sad that a male has to educate her on periods.
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Open challenge to innatists: provide any evidence whatsoever that demonstrates a domain-specific mechanism for innate identity or cognitive-affective image disorder in the brain. I will explain any science paper you provide in detail on this topic.
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No need to congratulate me! I have been discussing pregnancy costs this entire time. Glad you found another vocabulary word to badly explain from the AI that you’re plugging all my responses into!. Worse than stupid, you are a waste of time.
Congratulations, this is called the cost/benefit analysis of viviparity. You see, with oviparity (animals that reproduce by laying eggs) the risk is that the eggs may be in danger or may be exposed to environmental issues that may risk the developing fetus inside.
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By “incipient stages,” Mivart was referring to the seeming incipience, the uselessness of “half a wing” or “half a swim bladder.”. Darwin points out that these structures did not originally evolve for those functions. This is what Gould and Vrba would later call exaptation.
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A couple weeks ago that same idiot was arguing with me over the concept of exaptation: the change in function of a trait during evolution. I was recently reminded that Darwin himself, in the 6th edition of On the Origin of Species addressed this subject in a response to Mivart.
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For example, if you read the paper I linked here, it covers the role of VE-cadherin in trophoblast invasion. Cadherins and other adhesion molecules are some of the oncogenes that contribute to the development of cancer, in all humans.
Here is Stanford Medicine describing the human placenta as “uniquely invasive.”. The barrier you are referring to is between fetal trophoblast cells and maternal spiral arteries. Here is a recent paper on endovascular invasion.
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The role of fetal microchimerism in cancer is unresolved. There is evidence both for cancer development and protection. That’s not even what I was referring to. The invasive capacity required by fetal trophoblasts predispose all of our cells to cancers.
"Heal" the mother. This is a process referred to as fetal microchimerism.
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They are issues of hypertension that are exacerbated during pregnancy because: the human placenta is uniquely invasive and takes control of a relatively large portion of the maternal blood supply (30-40% of cardiac output).
Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are issues of hypertension. The vast majority of cases are the result of PRE-EXISTING HEALTH CONDITIONS OF THE MOTHER like obesity and diabetes. Other cases are brought about by multiple births (like twins) or genetics.
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I don’t know what else to tell you except read a book.
@shamanspirit13 "highly invasive placentas" has to be the most terminally online thing I've read in weeks tbh
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Here is Stanford Medicine describing the human placenta as “uniquely invasive.”. The barrier you are referring to is between fetal trophoblast cells and maternal spiral arteries. Here is a recent paper on endovascular invasion.
First of all, placentas are not "highly invasive." On the contrary, there is a blood-placental-barrier that limits what is passed between fetus and mother. Second, pre-eclampsia affects between 2-8% of pregnancies worldwide.
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The myometrium (the muscles that cause uterine contractions) developed another entire layer to help force the child out. This is the cause of primary dysmenorrhea (period cramps) AND leads to tissue injury and repair mechanisms that contribute to endometriosis and adenomyosis.
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Painful childbirth is just the start. Humans have highly invasive placentas to support rapid development, contributing to preeclampsia. The female immune system is stronger to compensate, which contributes to autoimmunity. The invasive capacity also predisposes us to cancer.
I’d argue that women’s bodies were not actually “designed to give birth” tbh. Human pregnancy + birth is an evolutionary nightmare compared to other primate species. The narrower pelvises humans developed in order to become bipedal make birth much more difficult than it could be.
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