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What is the term describing the phenomena where an adaptation has not yet caught up with, or had a chance to adapt itself to, modern conditions? For example, our bodies are adapted to life in the Pleistocene as hunter gatherers. We are not 'meant' to live in large societal groups as we do now. I know there is a specific term describing this dissonance, I just can't remember what it ...
May 19 2011 02:56 PM