In recent years, evolutionary life history theory has been used as a heuristic framework to
understand mental health. This article reviews the life history theory and its integration with …

Life history theory is one of the major approaches within evolutionary theory, combining the
adaptationist approach with developmental constraints and including how organisms must …

Abstract Objectives:(1) Describe the concept, mechanisms and outcome of evolution;(2)
review the current topics in research and clinical psychiatry where evolutionary concepts are …

Research on psychopathology from an evolutionary perspective is generating many
interesting hypotheses, and promises to integrate data and theories from biological …

Evolutionary approaches to medicine can shed light on the origins and etiology of disease.
Such an approach may be especially useful in psychiatry, which frequently addresses …

In this article, I outline a general framework for the evolutionary analysis of mental disorders
based on the concepts of life history theory. I synthesize and extend a large body of work …

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

Highlights•Evolutionary theory helps explain the origin and development of
psychopathology.•Recent evolutionary work has implications for taxonomies of mental …

Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting
brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways. Traditional approaches have focused on a …

Phenomenological, biological, and interpersonal aspects of psychiatric disorders lack an
integrative empirical framework. In this paper evolutionary psychiatry is proposed as a meta …