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They're accidents.
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Why do you like chocolate bars, assuming that you do?
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It is not because your ancestors in the African savanna
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who enjoyed chocolate bars reproduced more than those who didn't.
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Rather, it is because we've evolved a taste for sweet things.
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And we've evolved a taste for sweet things, in part,
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because the sweet things in our natural environment like fruit
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were good for us.
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In the modern world we have created things like chocolate,
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which are not so good for us but we eat anyway.
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A lot of the debates--There's a lot of controversy
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in psychology over the scope of evolutionary explanations.