When Evolution Glitches Out
Animals are prone to falling for “evolutionary traps”: modern human-made stuff that accidentally tricks them into maladaptive behavior.
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Show Notes
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- Evolutionary trap: a situation where an organism, due to a change in its environment (often human-induced), makes a decision that was once adaptive but now leads to a maladaptive outcome, even though better alternatives exist.
- Stimulus: a detectable change in an organism's internal or external environment that triggers a response.
- Supernormal stimulus: a stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the natural stimulus for which it evolved.
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