“our notion of health cannot be reduced to some notion of “evolutionary design” and just because a mechanism is doing what it has evolved to do doesn’t mean that it is good for our well-being, and we can have good clinical reasons to intervene on it”
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Awais Aftab
Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse ( @randynesse.bsky.social )
Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...
Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...
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