You say 'panic' like it it isn't an adaptive emotion that evolved because it saved millions of our ancestors from imminent threats to survival, while their less panic-prone, more oblivious rivals went extinct.
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How would you test this hypothesis?
You're develop a field called evolutionary psychology that publishes hundreds of empirical papers on the evolutionary origins & adaptive functions of fear. Oh wait already been doing that for 30 years.
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Test the specific example you brought up, I mean. My question wasn’t an attack.
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Would like to know too.
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The existence of a feeling/behavior can simply be reason enough to say it is a successful evolutionary mechanism. I guess it could be a spandrel but I strongly doubt that
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Was the sarcasm necessary? I don’t think it was.
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