The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The going out and foraging process was we are certain driven by dopamine. I mean, there's no fossil record of the brain, but the circuits have existed. We know for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years. And they are present in every animal, not just mammals, but even in little worms like C. elegans, it's the same process. It's mediated by dopamine.
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Dopamine is the universal currency of foraging and seeking, right? Right? We call sometimes talk about motivation and craving. But what we mean in the evolutionary adaptive context, what we mean is foraging and seeking.