You may be haunted for hours by some embarrassing thing you did on a public bus or an airplane, even though you’ll never again see the people who witnessed it and their opinions of you therefore have no consequence. Why would natural selection design organisms to feel discomfort that seems so pointless? Maybe because in the environment of our ancestors it wouldn’t have been pointless in a hunter-gatherer society, you’re pretty much always performing in front of Modern life is full of emotional reactions that make little sense except in light of the environment in which our species evolved.
Modern life is full of emotional reactions that make little sense except in light of the environment in which our species evolved.
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