“Disaster is like everyday life, only more so.” —Rebecca Solnit A brief set of thoughts and observations about the (rather stunning) social dynamics of this entire COVID-19 fiasco—as always through the lens of evolution and its insights into the ways in which humans attempt (occasionally poorly) to confront and resolve a given set of adaptive dilemmas. First, a reminder/bit of mansplaining. The first rule of evolution is that everything is ultimately a mating dance, more or less. Well, the first rule is to survive, of course, but you really only care about surviving long enough to reproduce. It’s really all…
