CrowdScience listener Leo gets stressed when his young children start screaming at the same time in the middle of the night. He wants to know why we haven’t evolved to deal with the stress more effectively. The challenges of bringing up a family are nothing new and we don’t face the same dangers as our ancestors, so why do we still react as if it’s a life-threatening emergency? Caroline Steel finds out what stress is for, what it does to us and whether we have in fact evolved to manage it. 

Contributors: 

Tashfia Ahmed, biomedical engineer, post-doctoral researcher, City University, London 
Anne-Kathrin Gellner, neurologist and psychiatrist, Bonn University 
James Rilling, anthropologist and neuroscientist, Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Emory University  
Gunter Wagner, evolutionary biologist, Vienna University 

Presenter: Caroline Steel 
Producer: Jo Glanville 
Editor: Richard Collings 
Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris 
Studio Manager: Jackie Margerum

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