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Jun. 27th, 2011 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?
Frankly, I don't much care for the evolutionary frame to this article's argument. Evolution has left us with many darn useless traits over the millennia, after all. But I agree that "shyness" can be a valuable quality, and it does seem like in our increasingly loud, extroverted society "shyness" is unfairly stigmatized.
Frankly, I don't much care for the evolutionary frame to this article's argument. Evolution has left us with many darn useless traits over the millennia, after all. But I agree that "shyness" can be a valuable quality, and it does seem like in our increasingly loud, extroverted society "shyness" is unfairly stigmatized.