Over the course of our evolutionary history, most environmental stressors were climatic and geographic. Now, however:

a. humans have little environmental stressors, climatic or geographic.
b. nonhuman primates have more stressors than humans.
c. humans face a series of new environmental stressors of their own making.
d. humans also face daily weather stressors.
e. humans have climatic stress, but geographical stress has been removed because of technology.


c

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