Somewhere Something Went Terribly Wrong

An investigation into the Origins of Trauma in the Human Species

The Questions: 

• If trauma is not found in wild animals why is it so common in people?
• If it’s so biologically costly, how did evolution allow it to develop at all?
• When did humans start getting traumatized so easily?
• What’s going on here?

Some Answers: 

• Trauma is common in animals in captivity, including humans.
• It’s actually a collection of cultural phenomenon inhibiting biology that cause systematic traumatization in humans, not biology alone.
• Apparently at the transition between the Ancestral Environment (Paleolithic Period) to the Modern (Neolithic to Techno-Industrial).
• Let’s find out. Read the article to get started.