The relentless pursuit of happiness

It’s curious in this article by Ross Gittins, and many other articles, that “evolution” is the new substitute for sin – ie if we’re doing something futile that doesn’t quite make sense, there must be an evolutionary reason for that (and so somebody hazards a guess at one).

Also curious, is the line that “Since our brains haven't evolved further in response to the modern environment…”. What reason does anybody have for that? Why do we think evolution has been happening for millions of years, but all of a sudden it’s stopped?

Then we have the weird conclusion that our better-educated, more reflective selves can actually over-ride natural selection (and yet that wouldn't be a result of our brains having evolved, because they haven't). Baffling.