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The natural selection of psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Bernard Crespi
Bernard Crespi*
Affiliation:
Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/crespi/
*
crespi@sfu.ca
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Abstract:

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Diverse evidence from genomics, epidemiology, neurophysiology, psychology, and evolutionary biology converges on simple general mechanisms, based on negative secondary effects of strong selection, for how mental disorders such as psychosis have evolved and how they are sustained.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006, pp. 410 - 411
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006