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Meditation as behavior originating from defensive freezing in Homo sapiens: A phylogenic theory
2024-09-02
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<p>The biological origins of meditation in humans remain largely unexplored, despite extensive studies on its effects at the individual level. I propose a phylogenetic account, suggesting that meditation may have evolved from the defensive freezing response, an inherited response observed across multiple species. Defensive freezing, characterized by immobility, non-reactivity, hypervigilance, attention orienting,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8e785654-f7c9-5b1f-91be-791d6e150716
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- 10.31234/osf.io/gd5sa