Head Banging

Reason #392 why I hit my head so much.


In a way, you think that evolution would make us shorter because hitting your head so much can't be good for the brain, and thus would impede the procreation of tall people and their tall genes. Good thing being tall is normally seen as attractive. Instead of focusing on finches, why didn't Darwin just study tall people in short countries? Maybe everyone in Japan is short because the tall people die at an early age from chronic head trauma. Or, just like environments mold species into possessing certain characteristics (i.e. different species of finches having different beaks for different diets), the Japanese environment melds it's citizens into being under 5'5". And that brings me to the primary difference between Japan and the US: Japan is small. And Japan being small plays an enormous role in their culture, people, and, well, me hitting my head on something every other day.