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What the First Humans Were Actually Terrified Of (And Why You Are Too)
Modern anxiety isn't a breakdown—it's an evolutionary mismatch. Why our Pleistocene threat-detection system (the amygdala) defaults to false alarms, with fossil predation
Your Brain Was Built for the Hunt, Not the 8-Hour Workday
The 3 p.m. crash isn't a personal failure, it's an evolutionary mismatch. Why a brain shaped for short bursts of focus and real recovery struggles with the continuous 8-h