Skin wounds in humans heal nearly three times slower than in other primates

18 bikenaga 7 5/1/2025, 9:28:45 PM phys.org ↗

Comments (7)

kazinator · 14h ago
Living in the wild selects for fast healing, as a an evolutionary fitness function. Wounded individuals that don't heal fast are going to be more prone to deadly infections compared to fast healers.
nyanpasu64 · 20h ago
Is it possible that fight wounds and surgical wounds have different properties, and surgery results in slower healing?
Doxin · 5h ago
I thought it was a fairly well known thing that rough wounds heal faster than very neatly sliced wounds, though now that I think about it I don't know where I picked that up.
xeonmc · 19h ago
Maybe less activation of cytokines?
metalman · 19h ago
it's just so fucked up that someone is stabing monkeys for science
yummypaint · 16h ago
We collectively kill billions of animals per year for food with little regard for their welfare, and much of that food is then wasted. There is probably more gained through such studies relatively speaking.

Does that mean we should do them? I don't know, but that decision should be related to how we treat other animals more generally. I always found it strange that the "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" disclosure seemingly exempts the catering tent.

PeterStuer · 5h ago
While I agree with the sentiment, science seems to be one of the least bad reasons for stabbing monkeys.