The Null Device

The authors of a book titled Evolutionary Psychiatry believe that mental disorders are the manifestations of adaptive strategies which, in another context, were once useful.

The theory advanced by Stevens and Price is that people with a schizoid personality ... are suited to taking on the role of charismatic leader, and such leaders, they argue, would have been advantageous in early hunter-gatherer societies because they would facilitate the splitting up of groups which were tending to grow larger than the optimum size (about 50 individuals).

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