{"id":677,"date":"2008-08-08T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=677"},"modified":"2008-09-29T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T18:51:30","slug":"schizophreniaunintended-bi-product-of-human-brain-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Schizophrenia:Unintended By Product Of Human Brain Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Metabolic changes that spurred the evolution of our cerebral abilities may have possibly pushed the brain to its limits. The latest research adds weight to the theory that schizophrenia is a costly byproduct of human brain evolution. Philipp Khaitovich from the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology led researchers from Cambridge, Leipzig and Shanghai to investigate brains from healthy and schizophrenic humans and compared them with chimpanzee and rhesus macaque brains. The study\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s authors used new technical approaches to test the theory that neurological diseases are the byproducts of increase in metabolic capacity and brain size during human evolution.<\/p>\n

We must remember,evolution\u00c2\u00a0often involves payoffs and this is very prevalent in human vestigiality.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Suffering from poor eye sight,back and knee pain, wisdom teeth and now it seems schizophrenia is just the price we pay for being human,\u00c2\u00a0so much for an\u00c2\u00a0Intelligent Designer.<\/p>\n

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