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What is a possible evolutionary explanation of laughter in humans? Im stuck on this question, if anyone can help. Im highly highly thankful.
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What is a possible evolutionary explanation of laughter in humans?

Im stuck on this question, if anyone can help. Im highly highly thankful.

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Laughter is a potent endorphin releaser

One of the most recent studies in laughter shows that laughing with others releases endorphins in the brain—our homegrown feel-good chemicals—via opioid receptors. The more opioid receptors a given person has in the brain, the more powerful the effect.
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Laughter evolved at two different point in human development. First, they posited, at a point sometime sometime between 2 million and 4 million years ago, came Duchenne laughter, the kind triggered by something funny

Explanation:I was curious too and searched it on goggle lol

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