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The Rubin Report
The book discussed the mismatch hypothesis, arguing that many traits that would have been evolutionarily advantageous in the past are no longer adaptive in the modern environment. The book also mentioned the Harvard study on adult well-being, which found that the quality of social relationships is the biggest predictor of happiness. The book also discussed the role of genes in happiness, arguing that 50% of happiness scores are influenced by genetics.
Indeed. You know, the psychological weight of having young children and not putting all the odds in my favor.
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The book discussed the mismatch hypothesis, arguing that many traits that would have been evolutionarily advantageous in the past are no longer adaptive in the modern environment. The book also mentioned the Harvard study on adult well-being, which found that the quality of social relationships is the biggest predictor of happiness. The book also discussed the role of genes in happiness, arguing that 50% of happiness scores are influenced by genetics.
Indeed. You know, the psychological weight of having young children and not putting all the odds in my favor.
So there's something in evolutionary theory called the mismatch hypothesis.
So for example, when it comes to the top health killers, colon cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and so on, many of those diseases, you don't typically find them in hunter gatherer societies that mimic our evolutionary past because here's what happens.
We evolved in an environment of caloric scarcity and caloric uncertainty.
We've evolved to be in small bands of people that really matter to us.