have some people had it removed or born without it like a birth defect ?
or is this an evolution thing where only some have the gene because they came from different anscestors ?
help me understand
2007-09-27 07:34:10 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-09-27 07:34:56 · update #1
hey Darth
I am Scottish ... tis you Americans who misspell it rofl
2007-09-27 07:39:27 · update #2
it's not genetic, my sister has NO sense of humour at all
2007-09-27 07:38:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The greater the sense of humour, the higher the intelligence. Some animals that are bright enjoy playing tricks and doing things just for fun. But they have to be well fed and happy first. Same with humans. If all their needs are catered for, they can indulge in a good laugh. Interestingly, the most dire circumstances - life threathening - can prompt a really black sense of humour - almost as a survival instinct. 'If I didn't laugh, I'd cry.' Or, as the Yorkshire folk like to say about miserable s**s, 'It's bein' so cheerful what keeps 'im goin''.
Scottish people have a very dour sense of humour, I gather, similar to the Yorkshire folk. Deadpan humour requires a bit more intelligence, you see!
2007-09-27 08:00:33 · answer #2 · answered by Annsan_In_Him 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Genetically I'm Irish. By birth, Scottish. By education, a comprehensive school in the middle of a council estate. Obviously can't explain the science bit, but can guarantee a sense of humour is a basic requirement for surviving a Scottish winter in a prefab'.
Seriously, I believe the humour gene is in all of us and can be developed... depending on how many live in the prefab'. Six of us!
2007-09-29 07:19:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like your Q.
I think I lack that. I think it is more of a cultural thing. I don't mean countries. I mean upbringing. My Father didn't have much humour. He was part English and was rather stoic. I was also raised in Japan where flamboyant emotional behaviour is frown upon. So I ended up being completely reserved. When I first came to the US I was invited to go a comedy show. It was Gallagher whose show centered on smashing watermelons with this huge hammer. I was the only one NOT laughing. I thought it was crude and stupid.
I was as some would say too 'uptight'. Anyway, it took many years to finally understand US humour. I like Chris Rock, Louis Black, etc. I think it is learned behaviour.
I learned to laugh at myself.
Thanks for the interesting Q
By the way all English spellings!! I don't know how to spell centre in the past tense?
2007-09-27 08:18:09 · answer #4 · answered by Just me 2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-09 22:34:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was adopted, raised in a family where humor was present, learned most of the Bill Cosby routines by heart, enjoyed many comedians---Williams, Pryor, Martin, Foxx, etc.
When I met my birth mother at age 35 I found that we have a very similar sense of humor. We like farts. My son, who had memorized many books, learned to sight-read books when he got hold of a book at her house, "The Gas We Pass---The Story of Farts." I strongly believe that there is a genetic component to what we find funny, and if you disagree, well, could you please pull my fimger?
2007-09-27 09:11:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not genetic, but more like a latent virus, somewhat like herpes. Some people have flareups all the time, the least little thing setting them off. In others, it is mostly dormant.
2007-09-27 08:21:11 · answer #7 · answered by NRPeace 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps the lack of stimuli has failed to trigger the humour gene.
2007-09-27 08:37:07 · answer #8 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This "evolution thing" has come from mountainous evidence from convergent disciplines of study, among them island biogeography, paleontology, comparative morphology, ecology, population genetics, developmental biology and molecular genetics (which has been referred to as the ultimate forensic proof of evolution).
2007-09-27 07:39:24 · answer #9 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The lack of humour seems to be a birth defect....
The type of humour you enjoy seems to be something like a blood type.....
2007-09-27 07:39:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The humor gene is one that can be switched on and off and the phenotype of that gene when it is switched off is that the person as a lack of sense of humor.
2007-09-27 07:38:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋