The Evolution of Happiness

Cold, dark, dangerous, wet to the bone. Warm, light, safe and dry. What a difference a fire makes.


'An evolutionary perspective offers novel insights into some
major obstacles to achieving happiness. Impediments include
large discrepancies between modern and ancestral
environments, the existence of evolved mechanisms "designed"
to produce subjective distress, and the fact that
evolution by selection has produced competitive mechanisms
that function to benefit one person at the expense of
others.'