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To: SoldierDad
Actually, schizophrenia is maladaptive, not adaptive. Adaptive outcomes have benefits.
I was unclear, *intelligence* is the adaptive benefit for the majority of people with the genes. For a few people that get an unfortunate combination of recessive traits, they become schizophrenic. On the whole the increased intelligence is a greater overall benefit, meaning that the genes for schizophrenia hang around in population.
81 posted on 05/19/2008 8:23:18 PM PDT by ketsu
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To: ketsu

Okay, that makes more sense.


82 posted on 05/19/2008 8:25:50 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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