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February 16, 2013

Evolution Didn't Design Humans Very Well

Nick Collins, The Telegraph


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While the process of natural selection allowed humans to become much more advanced than other primates, it is also to blame for many of the maladies we suffer from today.

For all our success as a species, the problems we still experience as a result of our evolution demonstrates that humans are in fact "not very well designed", researchers explained.

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