An Upside to Depression? A Darwinian Perspective

Perhaps some of you have figured out this riddle: If depression is heritable, what are its selective advantages? How could such a disadvantageous condition be passed on from generation to generation?   As I see it, there are two possible answers to this question, and both have to do with a branch of evolutionary biology called evolutionary psychology. The first answer is that depression is actually a positive adaptive trait, or at least one...
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