You are disgusting in so many ways. Scientists just outlined six of them.
Humans learned disgust to avoid disease, but it’s turned into a complicated feeling.
By Neel V. Patel June 5, 2018
That feeling when someone you find sexually revolting offers you a stinky pizza.
To be disgusting is to be human. To feel disgusted is, also, to be human. And we evolved the ability to feel revolted by awful sights, sounds, smells, and tastes for good reason: feeling disgusted causes us to avoid things that are potentially dangerous. A new study doubles down on the theory that humans evolved revulsion to avoid infectious disease, culminating in six different categories of human disgust that encompass infinite swaths of nightmarish and nauseating scenarios we’re exposed to in real life and fiction, every day or once in a lifetime.
https://www.popsci.com/evolution-disgust
