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Williamson, in his inimitable way, goes into more detail:
“You see,” Haldane explained, “for
millions of years, during the evolution of our ancesters on Earth, they
were never free of the sensation of
weight except when they were falling.
Most falls had a painful ending.
“When one individual falls, and Is
injured, a conditioned reflex is established. But a million generations developed that simple fear-reflex, into a
racial complex. The old behaviorists
discovered, centuries ago, that falling
is one of the only two things that
can frighten a newborn baby.
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