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How Our Caveman Instincts Prevent Us From Saving the Planet

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Post date October 27, 2024

The cognitive skills that helped us live on the savannah still exist in our brain’s survival kit, and it may be the reason we fail to tackle climate change. Eugene Zhyvchik/Unsplash

The cognitive skills that helped us live on the savannah still exist in our brain’s survival kit, and it may be the reason we fail to tackle climate change.

Tags bad habits, climate change, cognitive skills, dietary range, environmental advocates, evolutionary psychology, existential threats, foodprocurement strategies, human behavioral evolution, huntergatherers, materialism, modern paleolithic hominids, polycrisis, survival kit, urban wildlife

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