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It doesn't have to have an evolutionary narrative, it's part of the variation that evolution can act on though and what is beneficial or deleterious depends on the circumstances individuals and populations find themselves in.
Reality is, outside of speciation events, vast majority of traits are neutral. And humanity hasn’t really faced a speciation event yet. We’re isolated as a species on our branch because everything else either died out or merged with us, not because we got forced through an evolutionary bottleneck.
It’s compelling to try and attribute inquisitiveness and borderline suicidal drive to explore to ADHD, but such attribution can be made to a number of traits with the same level of credibility - namely, “we don’t know but it sounds nice”.
"idk" is a much more boring post than a bit of speculation with some minor scientific backing (from studies and theories on ants).