PMID: 28500855May 14, 2017Paper

The Evolutionary Theory of Depression

Medical Science Monitor : International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research
Piotr Gałecki, Monika Talarowska

Abstract

The evolutionary success of Homo sapiens is attributed to the following two factors: the upright body posture (which freed our hands and allowed unconstrained operation of various objects) and intensive development of the frontal lobes, mainly the Broca area of the brain. Underlining the uniqueness of the human brain, we often forget about the fact that the frontal lobes - the most developed part of the brain - are at the same time our greatest weakness, exposed to the action of damaging factors in our evolving environment. Is depression the cost of evolution?

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