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Explain Like I'm Five
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Who's to decide what "properly" actually means in an evolutionary context? At some point in the past, this behavior either gave us a survival advantage in some way, or at the very least, didn't hurt our survival chances.
It likely added a “pattern” for a basis to avoid re-occurrence.