High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

I much prefer the modern world.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.