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Language and asymmetry versus the social brain – where are the testable predictions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

T. J. Crow
T. J. Crow*
Affiliation:
SANE POWIC, Warneford Hospital, OxfordOX3 7JX, Englandwww.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/powic/index.htm
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Abstract:

I agree with Burns that an evolutionary theory is required, but I question his multifactorial premise. The arguments for an evolutionary theory are stronger, and one that is more precise than that presented by Burns has already been formulated. This theory, that schizophrenia is “the price that Homo sapiens pays for language,” (Crow 1997a; 2000b, 2004c), generates testable predictions absent from Burns' presentation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 857 - 858
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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