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    Identifying adaptation by dysfunction
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (4): 521-522. 2002.
    Specifying exact selection pressures for identifying adaptations is unnecessary. Novel behaviors are not spandrels since they can only develop because of prior functions. An adaptationist approach has a high prior probability, whereas spandrel hypotheses attempt to prove a negative. The concept of maladaptive spandrel is criticized. The utility of dysfunctional states for identification of adaptations gone wrong is emphasized
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    Malady Causes Confusion
    Hastings Center Report 12 (4): 46-46. 1982.
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    Counterevidence from psychopharmacology, psychopathology, and psychobiology
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2): 302-303. 1995.
    Davey's discussion of phobias is criticized because of the lack of distinctions between the various classes of phobias. Psychopharmacological evidence indicates differing pathophysiologies. Clinical psychopharmacological distinctions are not congruent with either a strict phylogenetic preparedness model or with cognitive biases. Davey's critique of the laboratory bred animal studies seems far fetched. His hypothesis concerning the importance of historical significance is clearly ad hoc rather th…Read more
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    Mind, Mood, and Medicine: A Guide to the New Biopsychiatry
    with Robert Coles, Michael MacDonald, Sue E. Estroff, and Paul H. Wender
    Hastings Center Report 12 (2): 39. 1982.
    Book reviewed in this article: Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth Century England. By Michael MacDonald. Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community. By Sue E. Estroff. Mind, Mood, and Medicine: A Guide to the New Biopsychiatry. By Paul H. Wender, M.D. and Donald F. Klein, M.D.
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    Children's Unestablished Rights
    Hastings Center Report 11 (1): 24-25. 1981.