"Bernhard Fink"  wrote in message
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> Psychopathology or Adaptation? Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives
> on Individual Differences and Psychopathology
>
> CHARLES CRAWFORD & CATHRINE SALMON
>
> Neuroendocrinology Letters,2002; 23(suppl 4):39-45
>
> A greater understanding of psychopathology will be found in the
> integration of genetic and evolutionary perspectives on adaptation
> and function. Evolutionary theory proposes that adaptive traits are
> reproduced more successfully than maladaptive ones. However, some
> traits, while contributing to fitness in the ancestral environment,
> may contribute to fitness no longer. This is known as mismatch
> theory. Evolutionarily informed research into various
> "pathologies" has yielded interesting results, some based on
> this theory. This paper serves to distinguish between genetic and
> evolutionary perspectives on psychopathology as well as to examine
> some recent research on the selective forces that may be implicated
> in psychopathy, anorexic behavior, and ADHD. We suggest that
> research into psychopathy in general would benefit from an
> evolutionary perspective and an examination of the assumptions
> behind past research.

A thin (shallow) and relatively trivial interpretation. Especially, i.e., in
comparison to the massively cross-correlative, explanatory and revelatory
content of EPT.
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