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What's the evolutionary purpose of a human injecting ink into its own skin?

>> No.11153036

The evolutionary purpose of humans doing weird things is that every once in a while their crazy ideas are actually intelligent, humans are crazy risk taking free thinkers unlike other animals and that's where their intelligence comes from. (she's real).

>> No.11153037

>>11153029
There is none, it's cultural.
It also leads to fucked up lymph nodes by the way, since they accumulate the particles.

>> No.11153138
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>>11153037
>Culture isn't the product of genes.
Imagine that.

>> No.11153199

>>11153029
retardation and degeneracy

>> No.11153222

>>11153029
the same as any other art

>> No.11153240

warning coloration

>> No.11153323
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>>11153029
Probably social acceptance in some form or another. Making permanent markings on your skin makes it more likely to find a mate that has such markings too. But evolution does not have a purpose to everything; in fact a great many things cannot be explained away with "evolution made us do it". If a trait will make it more likely that you make children, it is more likely to survive, and if that trait makes it less likely to breed offspring, it will more likely disappear.

>> No.11153427

>>11153037
MIDWIT HERE.
SOURCE. SOURCE??? CITATION NEEDED. SOURCE.SOURCE SOURCE SOURCE. HUH. GUESS YOUR WRONG. I WIN.

>> No.11153498

>>11153029
>>11153037
>>11153323
Fuck off with your retarded evo psych nonsense lmao. The purpose/meaning of tattoos depends on the tradition they exist within. Contemporary tattoos, owed to not being in any tradition, are meaningless or individually-determined. In actuality they're commercial/consumerist, and correspond the social pressures of any product. However this can't be said to be a tradition because it's more of a random fabrication of the economy. We've yet to hit tattoos being high status, only removal of their low status (in Western and therefore world culture, even some urban Japanese get tattoos despite still-living taboo from yakuza association). Tattoos in history are hard to do so they always fit into some specific tradition and meaning, often lost to time. There's still some traditions like various Indian traditions, Yakuza tradition, and probably the only surviving Western tradition up until recently was sailor tats. In the ancient and prehistoric worlds they weren't uncommon, relating to religious subtleties beyond us.

>> No.11153520

>>11153138
>dude reductionism

>> No.11153525
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>>11153138
Stem sperglords trying to grasp social sciences.

>> No.11153631

>>11153036
No, she isn’t.

>> No.11153708

>>11153138
Isn't culture the product of memes, in the traditional sense of the term?

>> No.11153877

>>11153036
You were so close to being right, but you just had to fuck it up at the end, didn't you?

>> No.11153921

>>11153029
To fit in

>> No.11153974

>>11153029
Nothing. Fuck off with your off topic threads.

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To mark your damaged mental state externally so others can stay away.

>> No.11155169

>>11153029

It used to be a costly signal that you could survive in a society having such a frowned upon signal.

However, as tattoos have become more socially acceptable to the point of charicature, the LACK of a tattoo becomes the new counter culture.

>> No.11155188

In all seriousness though, women these days mistake men's "sex appeal" with love and don't understand how guys have two breeding strategies "smash and dash" (r type) and "settle down" (k type) so they cover their skin and dress like whores due to the increased attention they get from anyone and, men seeing they can "ejaculate and evacuate" on the whore will be turned on at the prospect of a 0 investment nut and want to bang her. Meanwhile the female is surprised every time when the dude doesn't want to settle down with them for the Long haul. Granted they can some times guilt trip a guy, or something but historically the social shame of being with such a woman would've made that impossible, hence why tattoos are such a recent thing for women.

>> No.11155220

>>11153029
Nobody will identify your clones as you.

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>>11153029
it's cultural, neighbouring tribes will not steal your women

>> No.11155951

Signaling social-group membership and intimidation due to a perceived higher threat environment

>> No.11157625

>>11153029
theres no evolutionary purpose, what the fuck is with these threads. evolution is the explanation of an outcome, not a law of nature.

>> No.11157650

Fucking yikes
Nu tattoos are trash

>> No.11157894

>>11153029
To show potential mates you're trash and should be discarded