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we evolved when there were 100,000 of us in the world. You can be as crazy as you want with nobody around. When you pack people on top of each other, they start to go nuts, just like rats do.
" Among the males the behavior disturbances ranged from sexual deviation to cannibalism and from frenetic overactivity to a pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep. The social organization of the animals showed equal disruption."
There have been criticisms of the study behind this conclusion, but our environment is indisputably greatly different from that in which we evolved and we may be a little behind in adapting, leading to low grade stress all the time.
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