[susan_hall]

If the goal is to generate a lot of useless "just so" stories, then this is good advice:

"Take any behavior seen in all humans, ie. not something that is due to local culture, and place that behaviour in the kind of tribal group that we lived in during most of evolution. Then ask the question 'what would be the consequence of this behaviour?' "

But if the goal is to figure out why things actually are the way they are, rigorous agent based modeling would be a much better way to proceed.

Also, all notions of human happiness were also shaped by human evolution, so the whole essay is nonsense. If evolution shaped our understanding of happiness, then evolution does not, in any simplistic way, explain why me might do things that go against happiness.