> because it passed the filter of natural selection
That alone doesn't tell much, you can still judge the value of any trait independently of natural selection.
Evolution didn't keep up with technology during the last decades. We don't live in small communities with strong bonds, sleep in huts, hunt, &c. anymore.
If you say "we evolved to be like this" and "everything evolved is right" there is no place for any kind of argument to be made.
Modern society doesn't' change the fundamentals of human behavior and needs. Per your example we still need a community with strong bonds, a diet of lean proteins and greens, and a dusk till dawn sleeping pattern to function optimally.
I'm sitting 8+ hours a day in front of a glowing rectangle.
Evolution didn't do anything to help my body accommodate that. All I get is back/neck pain, short hamstrings, hampered digestion and a shitty posture.
Sure I still need to sleep and eat, but that's about it. We're talking million of years of slow and incremental changes dictated by environmental constraints VS 200 years of exponential technological almost entirely tweaked for convenience.
Look at obesity, diabetes, back pain epidemics ... clearly most people diets / lifestyles are not matching what evolution engineered them for.
> Per your example we still need a community with strong bonds, a diet of lean proteins and greens, and a dusk till dawn sleeping pattern to function optimally.
To "function optimally" yes, but even without that you can live very long, reproduce &c. A few thousands of years ago you'd just die.
That alone doesn't tell much, you can still judge the value of any trait independently of natural selection.
Evolution didn't keep up with technology during the last decades. We don't live in small communities with strong bonds, sleep in huts, hunt, &c. anymore.
If you say "we evolved to be like this" and "everything evolved is right" there is no place for any kind of argument to be made.