The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain

by JonathanBurns (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2007

  $136.55

  Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens. It is aimed at those in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, sociology and anthropology, and also at the general reader.