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Evolution and Depression

If evolution is meant to be helpful why does depression exist?

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Tessa Becker
Sep 08, 2021
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We as humans often hold ourselves above most other animals in the world, as if we are somehow inherently more special or more important, but the fact is that we are victims to evolution just as much as anything else. The human genus, homo, developed from the Australopithecus genus, and over a few million years came to encompass nine currently known diff…

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