Tag: Mismatch
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January 8, 2025
Is Shame a Bug or a Feature? An Applied Evolutionary Approach
Shame evolved to help us to maintain conscientious behavior, but in our modern world it may trigger avoidance and isolation.

February 2, 2024
Functional Frivolity: The Evolution and Development of the Human Brain Through Play
Play is not frivolous but is an adaptation designed to guide proper cognitive development in human children.

June 18, 2024
(Mis-) Communication in Medicine: A Preventive Way for Doctors to Preserve Effective Communication in Technologically-Evolved Healthcare Environments
Cultural evolution created technologically-advanced contexts that make it difficult for doctors to communicate with patients in manners concordant with our evolved, ancestrally-familiar modes of communication.

July 23, 2024
Public Health and Evolutionary Mismatch: The Tragedy of Unnecessary Suffering and Death
The current anti-vaccination movement is a result, in part, of the innate cognitive biases inherent in our nervous systems that evolved to deal with problems in a very different premodern world.

September 4, 2012
Aspiration Makes Us Human
Our drive to exceed our evolutionary limits sets us apart from other beasts

November 9, 2012
Don’t Trust Your Stone Age Brain: It’s Unsustainable
We haven’t evolved to be successful in the modern world.
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