"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."
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"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.“
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