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Evolution and psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. L. T. Birley
J. L. T. Birley*
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Upper Bryn, Longtown, Hereford HR2 0NA
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 178 , Issue 2 , February 2001 , pp. 178
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Copyright © 2001 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Dr Abed (Reference Abed2000) states that “ ancestral females, of course, were never uncertain about the genetic relatedness of their offspring”. This is a very confident statement — much more confident than most of Charles Darwin's. Could he provide the evidence that makes him so certain?

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Abed, R. T. (2000) Psychiatry and Darwinism. Time to reconsider? British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 1–3.Google Scholar
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