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What is the evolutionary advantage of playing in the snow? Snow makes you cold and wet, yet humans still seem to enjoy playing in it. How could this help us survive?
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Categories: Human Body.

Reply	anticlock says: Along the road of survival of mankind,enjoying the sight,and the feel,and children playing,in the strange enviroment to the norm,would have warmed the minds against the hardships of the temperature.Survival from it would be the priority in the past,but today we have easily heated homes to escape our snowy antics (no votes) Tags: evolution, snow.
	posted on 2010-01-14 22:28:10 \| Report abuse

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