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#6326 03/31/06 01:28 PM
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Why Laugh, what purpose does it have in the evolutionary scheme of things, surely a smile is good enough?

I wonder what the train of events was that lead to the first laugh and why it is so important to give happiness a sound, maybe because there were a lot of blind cavemen about?


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y asks:
"Why Laugh ....?"

Bonobos laugh ... chimpanzees laugh. Laughter likely preceded cavemen by tens of millions of years.


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Is laughter associated with happiness?

We seem to laugh under all sorts of stimuli - nervousness, the misfortunes of others...

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Ok!

What function does laughter perform (that is useful in the evolutionary scheme of things)that a smile cannot?


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La tendere mercies,,, unaggressive bottled tensions/energy release~

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Would laughter (in its purest form) be classed as a reflexive reaction to stimulli, or as a more controlled thought based reaction.


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IMHO, I think it's a reflexive reaction; I don't have to think about laughing, I just do it. If I think about laughing, I can't laugh; I can't make myself laugh deliberately. Sometimes I laugh when I think about funny things, but I have to feel the humor of the situation. Sometimes I laugh when I'm nervous, or I try to make other people laugh when I'm nervous. It takes the edge off the tension in the situation for me.


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