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Bogus instinct

(Russ Schleipman)

By Alex Spanko

Globe Correspondent / March 2, 2010

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Tired of scourges like war and rampant obesity? Harvard Medical School psychologist Deirdre Barrett says we only have ourselves - and 10,000 years of evolved instinct - to blame. Barrett’s new book, “Supernormal Stimuli’’ (W.W. Norton), explores the idea that humankind is a prisoner of its own urge to survive, forced to follow instinctual patterns in a modern world where ... (Full article: 566 words)