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“Evolution by natural selection tends generally to promote adaptations up to the edge of chaos -the boundary between order and disorder. Where all fitness-relevant regularities have been subsumed, what remains is noise, devoid of predictive utility.”

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Book:Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

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