It may seem like a bit of a premature worry, but I have never been happy with the word “maladaptation” as a descriptor of the phenomena that I am studying. The word itself is clunky. A mouthful. Academic…
So, I am going to replace it with the word “mismatch” that is easy to say and still gets across the idea that in our evolutionary process some changes in our culture that worked earlier are now a negative in our new situation.
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