I am not sure I would completely reject the idea out of hand. To my (admittedly rather limited) understanding the evolutionary advantage afforded by an adaptation may lead to all sorts of other problems down the line. The example I seem to remember being given was the size of our brains in relationship to the size of the birth canal – making us clever but prone to painful and problematic (if not fatal) childbirth. Perhaps the unpleasant suffering some of us have to go through with depression is the price we have to pay as a species for being capable of introspective thought. Cold comfort even if it is true though.
P.S. You know more about Biology than me and I may have got this completely wrong.
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Date: 2009-08-30 12:54 pm (UTC)To my (admittedly rather limited) understanding the evolutionary advantage afforded by an adaptation may lead to all sorts of other problems down the line. The example I seem to remember being given was the size of our brains in relationship to the size of the birth canal – making us clever but prone to painful and problematic (if not fatal) childbirth.
Perhaps the unpleasant suffering some of us have to go through with depression is the price we have to pay as a species for being capable of introspective thought.
Cold comfort even if it is true though.
P.S. You know more about Biology than me and I may have got this completely wrong.