The savanna hypothesis of evolved habit preferences is well supported by the fact that humans prefer landscapes that contain resources (e.g., trees, water, game animals, etc.) and places to seek refuge (e.g., trees, mountains, etc.); to what extent do you think these evolved tendencies shape contemporary human aesthetic preferences?
The descent illusion, present in contemporary humans, is a protective perceptual bias that ostensibly arose as a result of the fact that those humans who had the perceptual bias left more offspring than those who didn’t. Can you think of other contemporary perceptual biases that arose in the same manner?
How has the powerful human emotion of disgust expanded from its original role as a protection against ingesting dangerous foods?

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