The Detoxification Hypothesis

Tears are probably purposeful, a true adaptive trait of some kind. So the next category would be, well, maybe tears have some kind of intra personal purpose th they do something within the body, within the self. And there are many ways of approaching this, but to cite a characteristic example of this type of explanation, i wanted to look at the detoxification hypothesis. This is one that used to be pretty popular, but has really fallen out of favor historically. It was advanced by the american bio chemist william fry in the 19 eighties and first published in 19 85.