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Ten evolutionary questions

#10: Nose-picking.

Given the social stigma attached to eating bogeys (also known as boogers), this figure is probably an underestimate. But even if numbers are lower than experience suggests, this still begs the question of why anybody should choose to eat their own snot.

Ten unanswered questions from the New Scientist.