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Parents don’t get bored easily, but when their children start eating solids. The level of disgust experienced by parents appears to change over time, and this may have evolved both to protect their children and to protect themselves first. immune system.
Disgust probably evolved as a way to avoid pathogens, such as those in feces or vomit, as a sort of “behavioral immune system.” Hannah Berg at the award-winning Brain Research Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was not involved in the new study.