Hunter-Gatherers, Mismatch and Mental Illness - Nikhil Chaudhary

Dr Nikhil Chaudhary is a Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
This webinar was presented to the Evolutionary Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.

[@anotherfreediver3639]

It's so difficult to identify any one thing that has 'caused' mental illness in modern societies, because we have changed almost everything since our HG lives. For example we uproot ourselves from our original families and support networks multiple times through our lives for study and economic reasons, and we require our children to go to school then do homework, which prevents them from participating in childcare. We form and re-form real and virtual teams at work, which means we virtually never get to eat together as a team now. I work with a different 'team' pretty much every week, such that the word 'team' has almost no meaning now - sometimes I've never even met them in person, or maybe just once. Most friends I meet once a year or less, because we're scattered across the country, and indeed the world, and keep in contact by phone and screens ...

[@panagiapanagia6354]

Why does n t anybody address the question of how often men and women are single(sexually) ? I read all books of Frans de Waal and Sapolsky and they seem to ignore one of the most important problems of modern society. 63% of males and 34% of females age 18-29 are single in the USA. And things are moving towards polygyny in the rest of the world as well (income inquality, status, sexual selection are connected). But none of you answer how often we see a baboon being single for years? how often do we see a hunter gather being single for years? How often do we see a bonobo being single for years? Was that macho guy who was moked by the tribe single, for example?(i doubt it)
Ty for the presentation i really enjoyed it! And more importantly it was really enlightening!