The modern educational experience is a clear example of how mismatched today's world is from ancestral conditions.

"Insanity is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche Something feels profoundly wrong with our world, doesn't it? That constant knot ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

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Humans may be biologically unequipped to handle the relentless pace and pressures of modern life, a new study suggests, with chronic stress emerging as a significant evolutionary mismatch in the ...

A physician introduces a provocative theory linking informational overload and evolutionary mismatch to modern disease and global instability. NEW YORK CITY, NY ...

Beth Morrell makes the excellent point that the modern world is grossly mismatched to the one in which we evolved. The restraints of our evolution on our thinking are there to be seen in our actions.

In thoroughly enjoyable and edifying prose, Lieberman, professor of human evolution at Harvard, leads a fascinating journey through human evolution. He comprehensively explains how evolutionary forces ...