Quite simply, he says, we have not evolved biologically to be happy in these situations.
And the Stress Age Homo Sapiens of 2005 has not evolved much from Stone Age man.
While technology innovation has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives, the education model has not evolved.
It added: "Communication and assessment systems have not evolved at the speed required".
But the dry casks holding spent fuel rods across the United States have not evolved along with their increasingly radioactive contents.
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In recent decades, our global educational infrastructure has not evolved to address the unbelievable speed of change that technology and the Internet is driving.
But he says the slightly unusual thing about literally is its meaning has not evolved slowly, with a slight shift, but the precise meaning has been reversed.
Not only had it decided to kill an electronic eavesdropping plane it was developing with the Navy to home in on hostile emitters, but it also moved to terminate both of its next-generation air defense systems because threats had not evolved as expected, and drastically scaled back one version of a joint radio crucial to battlefield connectivity.
The intelligent design proponents also argue that clearly, the golf cart could not have evolved from the caddie.
That suggests that wings may have evolved not for flight, but rather to aid in the quest to reproduce.
"It's kind of an organic relationship that's evolved not just from being high school buddies but from having common passions for life, " Molony said.
So far from being tragically dependent on it, or it being as addictive as cocaine, we could not have survived or evolved without it.
Since then, environmental stewardship has evolved from not polluting to sustainability.
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As the industry matured, an end-to-end ecosystem evolved whereby not only the producers but also the service providers were able to share the revenue from broadcast video.
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Those who believe that golfers are such complex characters that they could not have possibly only evolved at random point out that many low-handicap golfers are also highly successful CEOs.
In other words, the ground-rules for getting promoted have evolved and are not as predictable and methodical as they were in the past.
The upshot is that toolmaking, at least in crows, does not look like a specifically evolved ability but rather an extension of general intelligence.
All this supports a once-radical idea that has been floating about in psychology since put into words by the consciousness expert Nick Humphrey in the 1970s that human beings evolved big brains not to understand the world, but to understand each other.
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They also naturally raise the question of how much further this actress might have evolved had her career not ended so abruptly.
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This discovery shows they're not and that the similarities between them evolved in parallel.
Such fairs, of course, are not an American invention: they have evolved from the medieval fairs of Europe.
The postseason for major-college football is controlled by conferences, not the NCAA, a quirk that evolved from the sport's century-old bowl system.
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But humans evolved in small groups, not large collectives, so during early human history there may not have been people who were four degrees removed from anyone, they write.
His co-authored paper backs up theories birds evolved from dinosaurs whose feathers were not used for flying.
In the same way that evolution by natural selection can produce purposeful designs without an intelligent designer to prefigure the purpose, so animals can show behavior that evolved to be purposeful but is not psychologically motivated.
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But then, there were not many tobacconists in the African savannah where humanity evolved.
Our desire for trade has not changed, but what we are trading has evolved.
Precisely because it has evolved as an economic entity, but not as a military one and scarcely as a diplomatic one, it has found friends almost everywhere and few if any real enemies.
Thus, genetic engineering is not new, but the techniques for accomplishing it have evolved.
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