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Originally Posted by grant hutchison
I doubt if we'll ever have any epidemiology on the risk/benefit ratio of depersonalization, but if it eliminated a lot of young people from the gene pool during survival situations, one wonders why it's still around.
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As you know, reasoning from a perspective of "everything that exists does so for direct survival advantage" is a trap. As primate males often compete to reproduce as well as to simply survive, the latter is not the whole story.