What Evolution Reveals About Human Behavior (S1 EP15)
The Life Of The Mind by Steven Pinker
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Why Do We Have Anger?
In some cases, the answer is pretty obvious. Why do we have stereoscopic 3D vision? Well, so we don't fall off cliffs and bump into things. Darwin tried to answer that question; I don't think his answer was particularly good. Angry facial expressions are ways of making our threats more credible. And finally, what were they designed to do? In some cases, it's somewhat obvious, but still has some interesting things to teach us.
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