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Old 08-04-2003, 12:16 PM   #21
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Old 08-04-2003, 05:44 PM   #22
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Het, someone resurrected an old thread of mine. Thanks for the info Jesse.
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Surely it's obvious!!

Yawning is necessary to eliminate any imbalance between the air pressure in your eustachian tube and the ambient air pressure. This, of course, causes a minute change in the ambient air pressure, which means that other people now have to equalise by yawning!!
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Surely it's obvious!!

Yawning is necessary to eliminate any imbalance between the air pressure in your eustachian tube and the ambient air pressure. This, of course, causes a minute change in the ambient air pressure, which means that other people now have to equalise by yawning!!
I'm sure you're just joking, but I don't think that that theory works. I seriously yawned when I saw that picture of the yawning silverback above. No local changes in air pressure here. How do you explain that?
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Old 08-05-2003, 11:23 PM   #25
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lpetrich said:
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This theory will predict that yawning will be contagious among species with good mental-modeling
ability, but there are very few such species other than our species -- great apes and perhaps
also dolphins.
However page 3 of the thesis linked above says
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Nevertheless, yawning contagion has only been
reported in humans and ostriches.
This thread made me wonder why our eyes water when yawning.Page 53 of the thesis has
remarks on that.But I also wonder if the eyes of other species water when they yawn.
I couldn't find any comments on that.

As to why it is contagious pages 65 onwards have interesting stuff.
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