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Don't hit too hard on the keyboard!

I cannot think of humans in the previous centuries (>1000 years ago) hitting something constantly like we do on computer keyboards. Evolutionary response takes tens of thousands of years, so obviously we are not equipped to pound the keyboard and not suffer the consequences.

I have a bad habit of hitting the keyboard harder than it needs to be and occasionally my fingers hurt. I have to remind myself to make it soft and use switch fingers (I am not a typist).

Whenever we do something that requires applying force or (really, impulse) on parts of body due to technological changes, ask yourself, did my ancestors in may be a different activity have similar force/impulse on the same part of the body? If the answer is no, most likely you are not properly equipped to continue practice. Anyway, even after another ten thousand years, we won't be equipped to hit the keyboards hard since that type of activity is not going to affect "fitness" (in terms of being able to reproduce) and will not seek evolutionary response.

Perhaps, touchscreens are better than keyboards for this reason.

This reasoning applies to many other things, like the food we eat. Lactose intolerance is a result of exactly this reason. Humans started consuming cow's milk only about 5000 years ago and a lot of human populations have not yet adapted their biology to milk.

How about sitting for long periods of time in front of a computer? What does it do your spine, eyes?

What about things our ancestors did but we don't like running or chewing meat (I don't advocate meat eating)? We are capable of doing these things evolutionarily but if we don't use it we lose it.

People in India stand near the door holding onto the bar and precariously hanging out. From physics point of view evolutionarily this seems like the perfect thing we can do (visualize our ancestors, apes doing this on a tree branch).

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