The savanna theory of happiness posits that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation that affect happiness but also its ancestral consequences, and that the effect of ancestral consequences on happiness is stronger among less intelligent individuals. But what about situations that did not exist in the ancestral environment and thus have no ancestral consequences? Global pandemic is one such situation that has no ancestral analog, and the theory predicts such evolutionarily novel threats to have a negative effect disproportionately on the life satisfaction of more intelligent individuals.

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当智力伤害和无知是幸福时：全球流行病是对幸福的进化新威胁

热带草原幸福理论认为，影响幸福的不仅是特定情况的当前后果，还有其祖先的后果，并且祖先后果对幸福的影响在智商较低的个体中更强。但是那些在祖先环境中不存在并因此没有祖先后果的情况呢？全球流行病就是这样一种没有祖先类比的情况，该理论预测，这种进化上新颖的威胁会对更聪明的人的生活满意度产生不成比例的负面影响。