Why the Heck Are We Ticklish?

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I’ve explained a lot of weird bodily functions on this show but there’s one that we haven’t covered that’s always confused me: Tickling. What are you for, tickling? What’s the point of you? Why do you exist? Why do you make us laugh even though we hate you? Let’s dig into our evolutionary past to try and find an answer.

References:

Laughing, tickling, and speech http://untiredwithloving.org/dhahak.pdf
Pathogenic laughter https://n.neurology.org/content/64/12...
Tickling review http://charris.ucsd.edu/articles/Harr...
Darwin-Hecker http://charris.ucsd.edu/articles/Harr...
Early thoughts https://www.jstor.org/stable/1411471?...
Neural correlates of laughter https://academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Neural correlates of laughter https://academic.oup.com/brain/articl...  Experience of pleasure https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6...
Tickling and laughter https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Ticklish rats https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
Social laughter and pain https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...


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