We humans evolved over 2 million years, with natural selection forming the building blocks of who we are today — our deepest habits, patterns, wants, needs, desires. Our instincts. These are indelible and innately us.

This "ancestral blueprint" determines everything about who we are: from how we love, to how we work, from how we bond, to how we find happiness.

And yet, in just the last 10,000 years, the culture around us has changed much more rapidly than our evolved self can keep up with. The result is that our bodies and minds have not kept up with the fast pace of cultural change, leading to a mismatch between our evolved, innate tendencies, and the self that shows up today in the world around us.

This mismatch is manifest in numerous ways: historically high rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness, obesity, cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, alzheimers, autism, drug and alcohol dependency. And in the process of it all, a deep societal unraveling and widespread unhappiness.

With the help of bold new thinking from the fields of evolutionary psychology and ancestral science, we can apply an understanding of optimal human health, wellness and happiness to create a better quality of life in today's modern world.