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The Evolution of Asking Why Questions
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The instinct to ask why may have originated from the need to hunt, gather, and survive, but humans have since extrapolated it into more philosophical and unanswerable questions. This may be due to an evolutionary adaptation to asking exceptionally hard why questions that will never get fully answered, as seen in the beauty and complexity of the human body's biology.

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