A Harvard psychologist explains how our once-helpful instincts get hijacked in our garish modern world. Our instincts—for food, sex, or territorial protection— evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely populated cities, technological innovations, and pollution. We now have access to a glut

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"A Harvard psychologist explains how modern-world creations that gratify our most primitive instincts--for food, sex and territorial protection--are the cause of today's most pressing problems, in a book that calls for self-control with the aim of saving ourselves and civilization. By the author of Waistland."