How Evolutionary Biology Explains Smartphone Addiction

How Evolutionary Biology Explains Smartphone Addiction

  • March 13, 2018
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How Evolutionary Biology Explains Smartphone Addiction

That’s according to a new research paperthat argues for a new way of thinking about our phone addiction. The authors claim that hundreds of thousands of years of evolution made us social in order to survive–and social media simply is driving this deeply ingrained human behavior into overdrive. This isn’t actually all that bad, they say, if you follow two basic rules.

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