Fear Of Snakes Natural
By: Web Producer
Updated: March 10, 2008
Research Suggests Fear Of Snakes Natural
The commonly held phobia of snakes may be completely natural.
According to LiveScience.com, new research suggests humans have evolved an innate tendency to sense snakes, as well as spiders.
Psychologists found that both adults and children could detect images of snakes among a variety of non-threatening objects more quickly than they could pinpoint harmless animals.
Researchers at the University of Virginia says they believe this ability helped humans survive in the wild as they evolved.
Vanessa LoBue told the site, quote, "The idea is that throughout evolutionary history, humans that learned quickly to fear snakes would have been at an advantage to survive and reproduce."
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