ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2019
Getting to the bottom of things: The value of evolutionary approaches in discerning the origin of psychopathology.
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- Evolutionary Mismatch, Stress, and Competition: Making Sense of Psychosocial Problems in the Polycrisis Era.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Mind the gap: Development and validation of an evolutionary mismatched lifestyle scale and its impact on health and wellbeing.Heliyon · 2024Article
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Abstract
The network approach as a novel way of understanding psychopathology has helped address some of the existing issues associated with traditional biological interpretations. Nonetheless, it has similarly failed in explaining the fundamental etiology of mental conditions - a persistent conundrum that arguably could be adequately addressed only by evolutionary formulations, specifically evolutionary mismatch and life history theories.
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