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Hominin life history, pathological complexity, and the evolution of anxiety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2023

Walter Veit Open the ORCID record for Walter Veit [Opens in a new window]  and
Heather Browning Open the ORCID record for Heather Browning [Opens in a new window]
Walter Veit
Affiliation:
School of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia WC2A 2AE, UK wrwveit@gmail.com; https://walterveit.com/ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK
Heather Browning
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK DrHeatherBrowning@gmail.com; https://www.heatherbrowning.net/
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Abstract

In order to address why the number of patients suffering from anxiety and depression are seemingly exploding in Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries, it is sensible to look at the evolution of human fearfulness responses. Here, we draw on Veit's pathological complexity framework to advance Grossmann's goal of re-characterizing human fearfulness as an adaptive trait.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e79
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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