{"id":1769,"date":"2010-12-28T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:37:30","slug":"itching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Itching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Itching makes no sense to me. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>From a Darwinian, species selection point of view&#8230; just what good does itching do for us?\u00a0 Pleasure, pain, sneezing.. I get all that.\u00a0 But itching? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Oh I know its probably whatever has infected, bit, grazed us is trying to get us to spread itself or create a better habitat for its survival.\u00a0 But has our genetic code let the bugs have THAT much control after millions of years of evolution?\u00a0 Really? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>And a healing cut.. why does that itch?\u00a0 It&#8217;s detrimental to scratch it when it itches because the skin might tear or we might get dirt and bugs into the wound&#8230; so why?\u00a0 Why would the specimens who scratched survive at all?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t they die out over the ones that didn&#8217;t?\u00a0 Are you telling me that in millions of years of evolution there wasn&#8217;t born a few humans who DIDN&#8217;T itch and therefore didn&#8217;t scratch?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Then again.. there are still people on Larry Springer, so maybe evolution isn&#8217;t as smart as we think i t is!?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itching makes no sense to me. From a Darwinian, species selection point of view&#8230; just what good does itching do for us?\u00a0 Pleasure, pain, sneezing.. I get all that.\u00a0 But itching? Oh I know its probably whatever has infected, bit, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1769\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}