AI Practice Knowledge BaseCounterintuitive Facts (10): You're Sitting in an Office, But Your Body Thinks You're Fleeing Famine
PremiumEvolutionary Mismatch: We are primitive humans living in concrete jungles, and every day is biological torture
I. Have you ever wondered why you have back pain? Your spine evolved during millions of years of quadrupedal walking. It barely adapted to the last few million years of upright walking. It is completely unadapted to 8 hours of sitting daily. Your back pain is your spine screaming: "Why the hell aren't you running on the savanna?"
II. Why are you nearsighted? Your eyes evolved to search for prey and predators far away. For millions of years, human visual focus was tens to hundreds of meters. Then suddenly one day, you started staring at a screen 30 centimeters away for 12 hours daily. Your eyeball shape was forced to change, becoming nearsighted. This isn't your fault. Evolution just can't keep up.
III. This is Evolutionary Mismatch. Evolution is extremely slow. Takes tens of thousands of y
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