To the many reasons why people are chronically late filing their taxes, add another possibility: Blame their genes.

Procrastination, suggests a new study, is an evolved trait that probably served humans well in a time when finding food and fending off prey were job one, and time spent working on lofty goals for an indistinct future was sure to result in an early demise.

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