Exactly for the reason you give yourself—we now change our behavior and our environment on much shorter timescales than evolution operates on, due in large part to modern technology. We have a goal of circumventing evolution (see: this post) and we modify our goals to suit ourselves. Evolution is no longer fast enough to be the main determinant of prevailing behavior.
In the ancestral environment of pre-agricultural societies these behaviors you describe line up with maximizing inclusive genetic fitness pretty well
We don’t know almost anything about most relevant human behavior from before the invention of writing. Did they e.g. consume a lot of art (music, storytelling, theater, dancing)? How much did such consumption correlate with status or other fitness benefits, e.g. by conspicuous consumption or advertising wealth? We really don’t know.
Ok I see, I was just confused by the wording “given some more time”. I’ve become less optimistic over time about how long this disequilibrium will last given how quickly certain religious communities are growing with the explicit goal of outbreeding the rest of us.
Exactly for the reason you give yourself—we now change our behavior and our environment on much shorter timescales than evolution operates on, due in large part to modern technology. We have a goal of circumventing evolution (see: this post) and we modify our goals to suit ourselves. Evolution is no longer fast enough to be the main determinant of prevailing behavior.
We don’t know almost anything about most relevant human behavior from before the invention of writing. Did they e.g. consume a lot of art (music, storytelling, theater, dancing)? How much did such consumption correlate with status or other fitness benefits, e.g. by conspicuous consumption or advertising wealth? We really don’t know.
Ok I see, I was just confused by the wording “given some more time”. I’ve become less optimistic over time about how long this disequilibrium will last given how quickly certain religious communities are growing with the explicit goal of outbreeding the rest of us.