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Why use a locked document hosted on scribd?
But yeah, obviously evolution is involved. Variation is the driver of evolution, some of it is maladaptive and how we get mental illnesses. If those increase the odds of reproduction (many do) then the trait becoming more prevelant is evolution, regardless of if we see it as a positive or negative.
And that's not even getting into a little variation one way can help, but too much manifests as mental illnesss.
This is all well established...
Many other sites had it locked behind a pay-wall. This link was the first I found where I could read the article.
Yeah. Also, evolutionary-mismatch (evolutionary time lags), mutation-selection and as you said, balancing selection.
Your comment leaves out those two others.
It leaves out a hell of a lot more than two things...
If I included everything I'd never hit submit on a single comment
Of course.
Even if it's impossible to take into account everything, doesn't mean one shouldn't discuss or study the matter in a simplified way/ model, or discuss a specific part of the matter.
One can't understand or have a common starting-point to discuss these topics before having thought of them/ stumbled upon someone else that has thought of them.
And it's interesting to think about and discuss anyway, even if just for the theoretical understanding.