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“Many aspects of positive schizotypy -magical thinking, paranoid ideation, and the tendency to form novel and unusual ideas and express them in idiosyncratic ways- can contribute to a compelling leader personality, often with religious or messianic overtones.”

Mind Religion Evolution Myth Leaders Evolutionary Psychopathology Psychopathy Axial Age

Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Evolution in the cognitive niche has endowed our species with remarkable abilities such as language, abstract reasoning, and sophisticated mentalizing. These species-typical innovations have been accompanied by rapid changes in brain structure and functionality. While adaptations such as language are hugely beneficial, they are also likley to carry some costs. A number of authors have argued that vulnerability to psychosis is one of those costs -the price our species pays for its unique set of cognitive skills. From this perspective, there are no individual fitness benefits to psychosis proneness; vulnerability to schizophrenia and other psychoses is a general byproduct of our evolved design, and unfortunate combinations of genetic and environmental factors determine the onset of a full-fledged disorder in some individuals.”

Mind Religion Evolution Species Myth Leaders Homo Sapiens Evolutionary Psychopathology Psychopathy Axial Age

Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“People at risk for schizophrenia seem to be more susceptible to a wide range of environmental factors, an effect that could be partly mediated by a hyperreactive stress response system.”

Mind Religion Evolution Myth Leaders Evolutionary Psychopathology Psychopathy Axial Age

Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“At the level of broad personality traits, psychopathy and antisocial behavior are robustly associated with low levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and honesty-humility.”

Mind Religion Evolution Myth Leaders Evolutionary Psychopathology Psychopathy Axial Age

Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“The general idea that psychopathy represents a potentially adaptive strategy is consistent with the finding that even violent psychopaths who harm nonrelatives tend to spare closely related individuals, such as their own parents and children.”

Mind Religion Evolution Myth Leaders Psychopath Evolutionary Psychopathology Psychopathy Axial Age

Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“We are desperate to start a new axial age which will involve a re-flowering of common spiritual customs and communal practices, science and art (i.e., our whole cultural technology) that bind us together and which incorporate the benefits of holiness and reason.”

Reason Holiness Axial Age

Book:Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity

Source: Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity