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Depression in an evolutionary context.

Wolpert L

Sadness and low levels of depression are adaptive since they lead the individual to try and make up a loss. By contrast, severe or clinical depression is not adaptive, but can be thought of as sadness having become malignant.

Published 17 March 2008 in Philos Ethics Humanit Med, 3: 8.
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