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>The persistence of schizophrenia is an evolutionary enigma how much schizophrenia is actually going to manifest in peak procreating years?
by bryanrasmussen 1y ago
>The persistence of schizophrenia is an evolutionary enigma
how much schizophrenia is actually going to manifest in peak procreating years?
- throw-qqqqq 1y agoI have two relatives with schizophrenia. Both had onset in their mid 20s.
- bryanrasmussen 1y agoyeah but a sizeable part of the discussion here has been about women with menopause starting to show schizophrenic behaviors. So that might be a significant amount of the schizophrenic cases in the population.
- throw-qqqqq 1y ago> So that might be a significant amount of the schizophrenic cases in the population I dont think they are. Most are diagnosed in their teens or early twenties. Women slightly later than men. Women diagnosed in their menopause are not a majority of diagnosed schizophrenics; far from. I understood that part as merely a curiosity.
- bryanrasmussen 1y agoOK, I just figured if there were specific large groups of schizophrenics that manifested outside of prime procreative years that it might be a reason for it to not be such an evolutionary mystery. Of course it was unlikely this was the case as surely some of the people claiming evolutionary mystery would have thought of it and ran the data.
- rozab 1y agoReproductive fitness does not end as soon as offspring are born. Maximising the likelihood of genetic continuation is a lifelong endeavor.