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Not in cases where the deficits caused by the tweak are compensated for by modern culture. For example, it could be that natural selection made learning hard fo
by truculation 9y ago
Not in cases where the deficits caused by the tweak are compensated for by modern culture. For example, it could be that natural selection made learning hard for adult humans in order to preserve scant knowledge in prehistorical times. But now that we have written culture this may no longer be necessary or desirable.
- nerfhammer 9y agobetter example: depression and anxiety probably could have been selected by evolution to keep you out of danger, but in the modern minimally dangerous world no one would choose to have those traits if they could avoid them.