![]() Listen, learn, and enjoy! Please Scroll Down for Featured Resources and Transcript! It’s big-picture thinking for a species that doesn’t always see past the closest, most obvious brushstrokes. He helps us make sense of mother nature’s evil genius and her designs that keep the party going even if we, the participants, aren’t always in the mood. On this episode, we’re joined by Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry author and Arizona State University’s Center for Evolution Medicine founding director Randolph Nesse. ![]() What possible purpose could seemingly self-destructive tendencies like anxiety, depression, and anger serve from an evolutionary standpoint? In fact, some of these biological strategies seem downright counterintuitive to the survival of our species. In a sense, this is true - but “better” doesn’t necessarily translate into easier, more comfortable, or happier for the brains that pilot the bodies being streamlined to pass along their genes to future generations with maximum efficiency. ![]() ![]() One might suppose that the role natural selection plays in human evolution would be to make life better for us than it was for our forebears. ![]()
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