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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: benep on 23/01/2008 21:36:48

Title: humans...
Post by: benep on 23/01/2008 21:36:48

hi everyone im back after like a year off sorry i keep on coming off then coming back  ill try to stay on or just stay off 

well anyway us humans arent we just weird dont you think how our body automatically heals little cuts and how our heart pumps blood around our body how our brain makes us move our fingers and stuff so what i would like to know is how in earth does our body do it? its not like we make ourselves do it our body just well does it doesnt have to be told just does it so my point is HOW DO WE DO IT?

Title: humans...
Post by: neilep on 23/01/2008 21:55:51

What a truly remarkable question by a truly equally remarkable son ...erhmm...member !

Lets hope a passing ' body ' expert pops in to answer !!

Title: humans...
Post by: Karen W. on 23/01/2008 23:19:27

Its a very good question and I haven't a clue!  It is a very mysterios thing the human body as well as other life.

Title: humans...
Post by: neilep on 24/01/2008 16:17:18

Well, kids heal quickly because mummy and daddys put plasters on scratches and scrapes !!

Title: humans...
Post by: Bored chemist on 24/01/2008 19:47:15

Actually I don't think it's weird that we heal. We inherited this property from our ancestors and,if they didn't have it they wouldn't have survived to have descendents like us.
I do think it's an absolutely fascinating set of properties- we can move, grow, repair react, reproduce and lots of other things; the mechanisms are sometimes unexpected and the details remarkable; but it's not actually suprising.

If we couldn't do it we wouldn't be here to think about it.