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Adaptationism and molecular biology: An example based on ADHD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

James Swanson ,
Robert Moyzis ,
John Fossella ,
Jin Fan  and
Michael I. Posner
James Swanson
Affiliation:
UC Irvine Child Development Center, Irvine, CA 92612 [email protected]@uci.edu
Robert Moyzis
Affiliation:
UC Irvine Child Development Center, Irvine, CA 92612 [email protected]@uci.edu
John Fossella
Affiliation:
Sackler Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021 [email protected]
Jin Fan
Affiliation:
Sackler Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021 [email protected]
Michael I. Posner
Affiliation:
Sackler Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021 [email protected]
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Abstract

Rather than starting with traits and speculating whether selective forces drove evolution in past environments, we propose starting with a candidate gene associated with a trait and testing first for patterns of selection at the DNA level. This can provide limitations on the number of traits to be evaluated subsequently by adaptationism as described by Andrews et al.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 530 - 531
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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