Nature changes around us and tests our capacity to adapt to those changes.
Nature has selected those brains that have evolved to correct the vertical and horizontal inversion of retinal images produced by the convexities of the cornea and crystalline lens.
The COVID-19 pandemic selected against parasitic humans, given the need for social distance, face coverings, and self-sufficiency.
Loneliness increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this rise in loneliness was far greater for women than for men.
Being female was a significant predictor of general psychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If a ‘behavioural syndrome’ is a suite of correlated behaviours within or across contexts, then the pandemic showed that chromosomes predict ‘behavioural syndromes’.
The pandemic was an environmental change which demonstrated natural selection at the level of the chromosome, and which showed that, at times, one X chromosome is better than two X chromosomes.
The result of the 2024 United States presidential election was completely predictable, Liz Truss having paved the way, by her failure to adapt her cabinet appointments and her policies to the demands of the pandemic.
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