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What’s Darwin got to do with it? The role of evolutionary theory in psychiatry

Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block (eds): Maladapting Minds: Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Theory. Oxford University Press, 2011

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Ravenscroft, I. What’s Darwin got to do with it? The role of evolutionary theory in psychiatry. Biol Philos 27, 449–460 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-011-9301-3

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