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Caroline Turner's avatar

I'm not ready to conclude that ADHD is adaptive, but I'm also not convinced a trait value being away from the mean is evidence against that trait being adaptive. In particular, I'm thinking about frequency-dependent selection. It could be, for example, that in a population of competitors that tend to explore less, a rare trait of exploring more would allow those individuals access to more resources that haven't been exploited by others and therefore that trait could be beneficial when rare.

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Paul Goldsmith's avatar

I flitted to several other tasks logged in my memory banks before finishing reading this !

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