Why do humans have such a profound wanderlust to explore new, exotic, and even dangerous things? Recent studies have show that in addition to societal and cultural reasons there is clearly a genetic basis for novelty seeking and risk taking in humans. The answers and the forces that drove exploration and civilization seem to be buried in our evolutionary past.
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The evolutionary basis for risk taking
