ABSTRACT
Humans are the product of some 3,500 million years of biological evolution. Those of us who are alive today are an indescribably small proportion of those who could be alive, had natural selection not weeded most of them out. The importance of these facts has rarely been considered for education. The aim of this chapter is to argue that our evolutionary heritage is of profound importance for how we learn, including what we find easy to learn and what we find difficult.
