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Ancestral Brain

The Ancient Brain in the Modern Mall Your brain is extraordinary. It can do calculus, write poetry, and simultaneously manage your heartbeat, your balance, and your ability to recognise a face in a crowd. But when it comes to making decisions about resources — whether to spend, trade, acquire, or give something up — it is running software that was written during the Stone Age. For the vast majority of human existence, roughly 200,000 years of it, we lived in small bands of hunter-gatherers. There were no supermarkets, no price tags, no anonymous transactions. Resources were scarce and errors were costly. Getting it wrong — overpaying for something, being cheated by a stranger, wasting precious calories on a bad trade — could genuinely threaten your survival or your standing in the group. So our brains evolved a powerful decision-making system. Not a spreadsheet of rational calculations, but a fast, intuitive, emotionally-charged set of rules designed to protect us from catastrophic mistakes while still allowing us to seize good opportunities. That system is still running today. Every time you stand in a shop feeling vaguely uneasy about a price, every time a 'free' offer makes you inexplicably excited, every time you feel a strange reluctance to sell something you own — that is your ancestral brain doing its job. It just has no idea that the world has changed. The good news is that this system is not random. It follows a simple, predictable structure. Once you understand it, human consumer behaviour stops looking like a collection of weird quirks and starts looking like something completely logical. Read the blog on drdennisprice.com/blog