Dr Paul St John Smith reflects on his personal journey and unpacks some of the most common misconceptions surrounding evolution-based thinking in psychiatry.
I'd love to see more on this topic from open-minded experts. What the author writes about -- hostility to new ideas -- I see often in the autism field, unfortunately.
This is fascinating and a subject area that I have been interested in for decades, although only as a layperson.
Do you know if there are any recorded studies for the village of Oberammagau in Europe which escaped the Bubonic Plague and so could provide a useful "before and after" for the way humans have evolved post pandemic from the middle ages?
Thanks for this excellent piece! Like the other commenter, I'm a layperson interested in these topics. I hit on evolutionary mismatch theories and research as they pertain to neurodivergence here: https://strangeclarity.substack.com/p/evolutionary-mismatch-just-one-part
I'd love to see more on this topic from open-minded experts. What the author writes about -- hostility to new ideas -- I see often in the autism field, unfortunately.
This is fascinating and a subject area that I have been interested in for decades, although only as a layperson.
Do you know if there are any recorded studies for the village of Oberammagau in Europe which escaped the Bubonic Plague and so could provide a useful "before and after" for the way humans have evolved post pandemic from the middle ages?