Humans evolved for 200,000-300,000 years living in tribes of approximately 150 people where everyone was interdependent and survival depended on strong bonds to specific people, and modern isolated nuclear family living and anonymous society are evolutionarily novel conditions that our psychology wasn't shaped to handle, creating mismatch between our evolved attachment systems and modern social structures.
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Daniel SchmachtenbergerEvidence Quote
“for the 200 000 or 300 000 years of homo sapien history we always lived in tribes...we evolved to fit in tribes so we so all the about attachments Theory we we love to have attachment to like 150 people like strong attachments and where our life literally dependent upon them [1:27:15]”
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Daniel Schmachtenberger – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life— Deep Transformation PodcastCreated: 8/13/2026, 10:22:48 AM
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