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LINK Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? - Nautilus - Pocket

Some interesting ideas. Food for thought.

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Tomfoolery33 9 May 13
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What is depression? It is a subtle way of telling you that things do not always go your way and that you are not the only duck on the pond.

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Somewhat contrived, I feel.
One could argue that depression is more prevalent when people are in large groups. That would make it an evolutionary device to reduce the group size, except that in this case those genes would fail to be passed on.

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