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randallsquaredtoday at 11:19 AM1 replyview on HN

I think the argument is that the urban setting itself is ancestrally unnatural. Only a tiny proportion of humans lived in areas full of strangers in close proximity until the last hundred or two hundred years, which is not long enough for any related changes to spread widely given generation length.


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steve1977today at 11:24 AM

> I think the argument is that the urban setting itself is ancestrally unnatural.

That was my point, yes.