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Multiple timescales of evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams*
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, LondonSE5 8AF, United Kingdomhttp://folk.uio.no/jonathaw/
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johwilliams@gmail.com
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Abstract:

Keller & Miller's (K&M's) treatment of disorders usefully avoids diagnostic minutiae; but it needs more real-world constraints. Classifying processes by their evolutionary age helps to clarify both evolution and current function. Evolutionarily old, optimised, normative processes deserve special recognition, because they can be studied in animals and computers, and because they provide the machinery through which disorder-related polymorphisms act.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 426 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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