How Sadness Survived: The Evolutionary Basis of Depression

By Paul Keedwell (Author); Philip Barker (Author)

Book information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9781846190131, 9781138032781, 9781138450936, 9780429247088
DOI
10.1201/b21835
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1606333 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
\186
Time added
2020-10-06 04:24:42
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Description

"What I am offering is a critical overview of ideas about depression, some new, some old, which fall under the discipline of `evolutionary psychology`(EP). Do most types of depression represent an adaptation - an evolved mechanism which has improved our survival and reproductive value in our ancestral environment? Has depression been selected? Coul

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