Evolutionary mismatch: once-adaptive traits become liabilities overnight

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Evolutionary mismatch names the gap when previously adaptive alleles are no longer favored in a new environment. A trait that maximized survival on the savanna — sugar craving, status vigilance, tribal loyalty — can become a source of dysfunction the moment the environment shifts under it.

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