Panic And Its Evolutionary Analysis

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Panic is one of the primary emotion of the human body, it served as important tool during the evolutionary history of the human being as a way for the human to flee and fight predators, this primary mechanism has evolved along the environmental changes and what worked for us as human few thousand years ago may not be helpful today.
The world has changed to a more civilize and less threatening place, and our behavior adapted to the changes, yet it did not completely forget its evolutionary roots.

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