Practice question · Multiple choice
Evolutionary psychology explains the modern taste for sugar and fat by the EEA: the environment we adapted to. What does that explanation predict that a simple 'we like tasty things' does not?
Hints
- The environment changed in decades and the genome did not. Ask what that gap predicts.
- A rule tuned for scarcity meets a supermarket. What happens?
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B. A mismatch: preferences calibrated to scarcity misfire under abundance
Why
It predicts systematic misfiring, which is a real claim and not a restatement. A preference tuned to rare ripeness meets unlimited supply, and the appetite has no way to know the world changed. That is why obesity is framed as a mismatch rather than a failure of character.
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