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by ben_w 248 days ago
My guess is that your framing presumes the opposite of the evolutionary reality. I think this time of day probably wasn't a big risk for us, that we were often the hunters and not just the hunted, and that the sense of beauty comes from — as the previous poster suggests — us having evolved to find it so.

That said, I'm discovering from living very close to a lake for the last year that mosquitos are a right pain around sunset…