Evolution and psychiatry

J. L. T. Birley

Upper Bryn, Longtown, Hereford HR2 0NA

EDITED BY MATTHEW HOTOPF

Dr Abed (2000) 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?

REFERENCES

Abed, R. T. (2000) Psychiatry and Darwinism. Time to reconsider? British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 1-3.[Free Full Text]