Why is our stress system more suited for “getting attacked by lions” than modern financial worries?
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Industrial Revolution – leading to modern way of life – in progress around 1800. Current year 2023. Number of human generations for current adults approximately 7-9.
Much less than this in parts of the world that industrialized later. Chinese industrialization is still within living memory.
Evolution works on a scale of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. Extreme pressures can cause faster change (e.g. tuskless elephants, immunity to high lethality disease) but until overreacting to financial threats is actually *killing* people before they can raise offspring, it’s not even a pressure.
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