The Misshapen Mind: How the Brain's Haphazard Evolution Left Us with Self-Destru

[NicholeW.]

The Misshapen Mind: How the Brain's Haphazard Evolution Left Us with Self-Destructive Instincts
By Sasha Abramsky, The American Prospect. Posted August 20, 2008.

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/95689/

The human mind, we like to think, is an embodiment of perfection. For those with a religious inclination, our ability to think through issues logically, to construct narratives about our surroundings, and to recall events that happened decades earlier is proof positive of a divine hand at work. For the nonreligious, the mind is a secular miracle, an indication that, left to its own devices, evolution produces something akin to a Panglossian vision of the best outcomes in the best of all possible worlds.