A new form of survival instinct — workable for the modern man
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors confronted the greatest threats to their immediate survival and, most of them, were physical in nature, like an attack from a predator or a rival tribe; or a crisis of food security. So, how did our cave-dwelling fathers manage to survive against these threats to their lives? Their survival instincts served them so well to keep them alive and enabled them to climb out of the primordial muck.
But today we don’t confront such threats anymore — in the absence of constant threat to our survival and, with ample food options and advanced healthcare; our survival instincts seem to be increasingly less important. So, the question is: does modern man still retain the caveman’s survival instincts? If yes, then do they work to deal with the complex, unpredictable and uncontrollable challenges of the modern world? Here is the answer to these questions:
Does modern man still retain the caveman’s survival instincts? Our ancestors used to live in an environment where it was critical for them to keep an eye on both humans and non-human animals. They knew that predators and prey had different forms, but consistent monitoring for both predator and prey was an exhausting task. Over time, they evolved an instinct that helped them to easily notice those things that posed some threat to their survival. A research conducted by the evolutionary psychologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, supported this idea that we possess an attentional bias towards things that were potentially threatening to our ancestor’s survival.
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