There’s an interesting new take on depression. It may not be a disorder at all, but an adaptation, an evolutionary trait that helps humans survive.
How could that be? What’s the point of it?
The answer is that depressed people dwell on their problems (yeah, you say, so what? We all know that). They analyze them [...]
What happened to the Neanderthals? We ate them.
The argument between meat-eaters and vegans misses the point: humans have evolved to eat cooked food.
Evolution was an idea whose time had come, with or without Charles Darwin.
“Competitive selection” is misunderstood. Natural selection doesn’t have to be a baret-toothed fight between species to see who is the most [...]
Question: Our societies are built on cooperation, mutual trust, and social networks. That’s hardly the law of the jungle. So how did we get that way? Why are we monogomous, pro-social, empathic creatures? Why did altruism evolve in humans?
Answer: (one answer, at least) So that soldiers would willingly go off to war.