Wolpert, L;
(2008)
Depression in an evolutionary context.
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
, 3
, Article 8. 10.1186/1747-5341-3-8.
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Abstract
Sadness and low levels of depression are adaptive since they lead the individual to try and make up a loss. By contrast, severe or clinical depression is not adaptive, but can be thought of as sadness having become malignant.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Depression in an evolutionary context |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1747-5341-3-8 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-3-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2008 Wolpert; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/46410 |
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