Where evolution slowly gave us "desirable" traits. This is because
the ones with less desirable traits died early and the ones with better
traits lived longer, so more children out of the total are of desirable
traits, and the cycle continues).
Will to
live is the clearest example of this. However, there is the problem
of over-evolution. In the last 100 years or so,
technology has advanced rapidly, and of course, there is little
evolution in 1 or 2 generations of a family enough to suit modern
culture.
High in life itself. Even when hating life, rather it is just hating the adversities.
Adapting to new social standards rapidly, otherwise people will fail, thus social darwinism basically affirms itself as the failed people won’t spread their ideas again. This is because humans also historically relied on being in tribes for safety, so even though survival is much easier now (in the fact that wild animals are more easily contained), people still have the fear of loneliness.
Unless you have a medical condition, doing so. Humans in the past used to barely have food, eating what is known as a Caveman Diet, but now there is an abundance, assuming you have enough money. Eating is now more about eating pleasurable things than just getting enough to survive (though, of course, it helps you survive). People of the past rarely had optimal nutrition. But they still survived! We can now eat more, and if the micromanagement of nutrients causes more tedium or stress than it brings pleasure, it can be a good idea to stop.
Well, don't worry too much.
As demonstrated by the fact that most people don’t regulate their
nutrients yet their health is still fine when it comes to lacking
nutrition defects.
There’s not much need to be over-aware of the nutrients of everything
you eat. Perhaps companies advertising their food products’ “health
value” is just doing clever, somewhat misleading yet technically true
marketing.
A bias where the brain irrationally
places a much higher emphasis on things that recently occurred or will
soon happen, weakening the perception of long-term effects.
The focus on immediate reward is also probably due to historical
hunting, where you could see the results of your actions and immediately
have a feast on the defeated animals.
This does not fit into the fact that the education system takes an
extremely long time before you start to have the possibility to
earn money. Being
temporary is not a good enough excuse. Everything is temporary; as such,
there is no meaning in saying that it "only lasts a while".
Short-form videos on social media know this too well...
Where most traits originated from our ancestors millions of years ago. I agree, human evolution has indeed accelerated quickly quite recently.
While they did do a lot of things right: sleep for instance (and of course the drive to survive, as only the ones with a strong will to survive will reproduce, so each ancestor got more willing to live), some things actually lead to downfalls, like stress preventing action. At their times, when they have a dark cave, of course, it's more logical to not go in there, it might have backfired these days because there's little as high risk as death and it prevented humans from having seized opportunities.
Honestly, though social media doomscrolling often gets blamed, school, which restricts freedom of movement, talking, and so much more, with no practicality of getting out, is a much worse fit compared to our ancestors. Lack of control due to restrictions by others used to not be such a global thing amonst youngsters around the world. Paradoxically, parents often restrict children more compared to before, likely due to the selection bias of the media.
Your effects, good and bad, are mostly from evolution - just knowing you evolved from ancient people won't change much about the fact you still have a HUMAN brain
The same idea can also apply to many traces of ideas: the popular ones stay even if little evidence, while the unpopular ones that may be right die. For instance, the fact that there were so many religious people in the past was because the rest of society was that way (plus no science to explain shocking things).