That Recoil of Nature
These universal sources of disgust led Curtis to hypothesise that disgust might be genetic; hard-wired in our brains and imprinted on our biological code by millions of years of natural selection.
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But what persistent force in our past drove us to evolve such a powerful emotion? The things people consistently find disgusting also make us ill.
This link convinced Curtis that disgust was a biological mechanism for avoiding infectious disease. Faeces, pus and corpses are all sources of dangerous bacteria and viruses; faeces alone being the source of more than 20 dangerous bugs. The genes for disgust probably arose by accident and then became common through natural selection. The observation that most animals avoid eating each other's faeces suggests that disgust could have evolved a very long time ago.
Curtis still believes that upbringing plays an important role in determining what we find disgusting. But she believes that we have evolved genes that predispose us to find some things more disgusting than others. If you showed the rat and the orange to that child for the first time, they would probably be fascinated not disgusted," says Curtis.
Crucial to this instinctive reaction are visual rules of thumb, which we use to decide what is and isn't a disease threat. Visual cues are so powerful, we often squirm at the sight of things we know are harmless, simply because they happen to look like a disease threat. Take worms for example.
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While many species of worm are harmless - like the humble earthworm - some have evolved to become human gut parasites. Over millions of years, we have evolved an instinctive avoidance of gut parasites in animal meat. And this same visual aversion to long, slimy, wriggly animals makes us squirm at the harmless earthworm.
The photograph on the left is of an elderly Israeli man who is thought to have been infected when he sat down under a tree to sleep. A sarcophagid or 'flesh' fly crawled inside his mouth and deposited its live larvae in the gaps between his gums and teeth. Another vital trigger is our sense of smell. I never find myself being tentative.
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