Scientific American – May-June 2019, Volume 30, Number 3

Invel mi, am evelit accaborernam

quodio. Num ipsa eseriantur?

Quisto bea pro invent aut rem

eium que cor maionse aas

piendus.

Officiene etus maio. Volum volum

nis eatem reperoreped

Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse,

one of the founders of evolutionary

medicine, explains why natural

selection did not rid our species

of onerous psychiatric disorders

By Dana G. Smith FLORIAN GAERTNER

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Susceptibility to

Mental Illness

May Have Helped

Humans Adapt

over the

Millennia