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#589 - 14 Lessons from 5 Years Of Modern Wisdom

Modern Wisdom

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Evolutionary Psychology - Proximate and Ultimate Reasons for Human Behavior

There is a relationship between why you do things now in the moment and what their purpose is long term evolutionarily. Natural selection favors certain behaviors, but doesn't necessarily favor us having explicit awareness of why we do what we do. In order to properly understand human behavior, we have to understand both the ultimate and the proximate explanations.

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