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The Monkey and the Snake: How the Primate Brain Reacts to Serpents
A new study probes a hardwired fear of snakes.
ByLiz Langley
October 30, 2013
Snakes on a Plane, snakes in a can, a rubber snake under someone's chair—just thinking we see a snake is enough to make some of us leap away like a suddenly expert dancer. And it might be those slithery serpents that helped us evolve to see as well as we do.
(Why are we afraid of snakes?)
