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Article #956Re: A Sneeze (AH-choo!) Question
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 19:22
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 19:22
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>>In article <6753@ames.arpa> howard@pioneer.UUCP (Lauri Howard) writes: >>I would be interested to >>hear any suggestions why sudden exposure makes you sneeze in the first place. >I was told it's genetic. I find it a little bit hard to believe that it's genetic. That would imply that seeing the sun is the only stimulus, which in turn starts the "sneezing- mechanism". I relate inhereted behaviour to cases (for example) like beeing afraid or cautious when confronting a snake, even if you have never seen one in your life and you're too young to have learned that snakes are supposed to be dangerous. Of course, I could be wrong ! Then the reaction beeing inhereted would be a neat explanation. If it is genetic another interesting question arises : what possibly could be the function of this reaction ? PS. "Lauri" sounds like a Finnish name to me - perhaps you, your parents or your grandparents origin from Finland ? Do you understand any Finnish ? (answer via e-mail, please)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!news From: news@santra.UUCP (news) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio Subject: Re: A Sneeze (AH-choo!) Question Message-ID: <11869@santra.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 88 19:22:41 GMT References: <7756@alice.UUCP> <939@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> <11360@santra.UUCP> <6753@ames.arpa> Reply-To: s30986u@kaira.UUCP (Martin Helin) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 19 Keywords: sneeze Summary: Why does sudden exposure to the sunlight make you sneeze ?