Abstract
The acquisition of pain avoidance represents a major step in adaptation in terms of evolutionary biology. Organisms were randomly selected who could evolve, systems to detect pain, process its significance, and institute appropriate avoidance. This did not occur in a teleological sense—organisms cannot “will” structural changes that benefit their survival—rather, it evolved in terms of the laws of general adaptation.1
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Blackwell, R.E., Olive, D.L. (1998). Physiology of Pain. In: Blackwell, R.E., Olive, D.L. (eds) Chronic Pelvic Pain. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1752-7_2
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