since being attracted to pictures of bodies – as opposed to real ones – clearly isn’t a great way to replicate your genes. What if news works like this too? In prehistoric times, it made sense to be hungry for information that might affect our survival, and fascinated by new events that might signal danger or opportunity. But ‘combing the planet for the largest, most dramatic disasters,’ Barrett writes in her book Supernormal Stimuli, exploits that hunger while bringing us little advantage."
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