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The future of tribalism
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Importance of Evolutionary Mismatch
The South African jewel beetle has been very close to extinction for a really bizarre reason. It's been thrown into a state of mismatch, but not of its own making, because we like to drink beer. And so they find themselves in a mismatch scenario where these male African jewel beetles are mating with beer bottles and actually did a major dip on the population until an intervention was made. We're seeing the effects of this mismatch in humans as well in Western educated rich societies. Over 40% of college students report being too depressed to function most days. Two thirds say that they regularly feel hopeless about their future.
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