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Peter D Gluckman1, Alan S Beedle
1Centre for Human Evolution, Adaptation, and Disease, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. pd.gluckman@auckland.ac.nz
Abstract:
The application of evolutionary thinking to human physical and psychological medicine suggests several pathways through which evolutionary processes affect risk of disease. Among these is the concept of mismatch between an individual and its environment, either because the environment has changed for the whole species (evolutionary novelty) or because the environment has changed for an individual during its lifetime (developmental mismatch). Here we set a discussion of maladaptation and mismatch as a cause of psychopathology (Frankenhuis & Del Giudice, 2012) in the broader framework of developmental plasticity and life history trade-offs.
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