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Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Predation Pressure From Snakes

Predation pressure from snakes is ultimately responsible for the superior vision and large brainths of primates, lynn isabel tells us. Psychologists have known for a long time that people canlearn fear to snakes,. but they discovered in primates recently, a set of neurons which reveal nerobiological evidence of past selection for rapid detection of snakes. The snake definitely woke us up. So what's the implication? Prior to being woken up, prior to recognizing nakedness and vulnerability, there was no reason for god for man and to hide from god. And so we hide.

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