Morning Sickness is an Adaptation, not a ... Sickness

This is one of those cases where our language gets the logic of biology backwards (or otherwise wrong) and at the same time potentially causes inappropriate human responses. Also, this approach to "morning sickness" is dripping with adaptationism. Which is good. Got a problem with that?

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