What We Are: The Evolutionary Roots of Our Future

Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid.  That’s about it.  The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex Drive in order to leave descendants.  But today we spend most of our lives mainly just trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd. 

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