There’s a perception that life before modern civilization was, as philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously put it, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”—an idea stemming from his personal observations of the brutal poverty of London’s underclasses in the mid-1600s. But since the 1960s, the perception of what life was like for early humans has been shifted by a lot of evidence that they spent most of their time straight chilling. Wanda’s life isn’t exactly Eden—she could be dragged off by tigers at any moment. But it isn’t exactly stressful, either—literally, her stress response goes off
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