People love dogs despite the fact that dogs' ancestors hunted our ancestors.Yet people fear spiders despite the fact that very few spiders pose any danger even if they bite, which they're not inclined to.So why is does this fear seem so innate?
>>16984626I do not think we evolved to fear spiders specifically, more like certain traits that spiders possess, like strange looking things creeping around. Lol.
>>16984626It's simple geometry.Or maybe it's genetic memory and women have stronger arachnophobia because many girl spiders eat boy spiders after sex and women don't want to eat men because men taste bad.
>>16984626Wolves didn't share the same territory with humans when humans were evolving. After humans came into contact with wolves wolves weren't hunting humans either. Any dangerous feeling towards dogs is more than made up by ten thousand years of coevolution. Spiders and other critters have been a danger since time immemorial and more importantly have never shared an obvious beneficial relationship with humans
>>16984660I would expect the opposite to be the case if that was it
>>16984666Why would you assume males taste good?There's empirical evidence that they don't.
>>16984679I don't see what the taste has to do with anything
>>16984626Read Jung.
>>16984713Taste is specifically a biological phenomenon to identify nutrition. Girl spiders who eat boy spiders after sex do so because they have small brains that don't care so much about taste, which is why women have more arachnophobia because they get scared of their spider junk DNA forcing them to eat men after sex and men taste bad, as established.
>>16984790Would this suggest a correlation between women not having arachnophobia and being more dominant in bed
>>16984626More skittering movements and limbs that make one feel they have to process more despite spiders basically never using their limbs to attack unlike many other predators with claws. Not knowing what spider it is exactly so the mind is often unsure whether it has a disabling/lethal bite. Unpredictable jumping ability and paranoia about it staying on you. Lastly, knowing you'll make a mess if you squish it on a surface/yourself and wanting to avoid that. Most people aren't practicing how to rationally deal with the scenario, so their minds often go into overdrive.
>>16984626It’s mostly a taught fear, not an instinctual one. If you visited a tribe in the remote Congo you’re probably not going to find any arachnophobes. There is an evolutionary precedent for being wary of fast moving creepy crawlies but that isn’t the same thing as fear and it isn’t specific to spiders. The idea that we would evolve a fear of spiders to avoid being bitten by dangerous ones falls apart when you actually look at where dangerous spiders live. There are no truly dangerous spiders outside of Australia and South America, neither of which had any pre-human Hominids
>>16984626they look weird and move weird - our brain is hardwired to freak the fuck out at things with one or both of these qualities because they're frequently indicative of things that want to kill us.unless we go out of our way to force non-threatening exposure to them, that instinct can be hard to overcome.
