I'm definitely a novelty seeker. Some of my worrier friends can't deal with my life choices! Not diagnosed with ADHD, but I definitely have some adjacent behaviours.
> The possibility that what we now label as “symptoms” might have once been adaptive features
For me, this "but what if there was an upside" question has often popped up in different biological contexts, ever since learning that the sickle-cell mutation (one copy, for reduced negatives) confers resistance to malarial infection.
The article talks about evolution, but weirdly seems to be about group selection. The trait would almost need to be an evolutionarily stable strategy for the theory to make sense? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strate...
I'm definitely a novelty seeker. Some of my worrier friends can't deal with my life choices! Not diagnosed with ADHD, but I definitely have some adjacent behaviours.
> The possibility that what we now label as “symptoms” might have once been adaptive features
For me, this "but what if there was an upside" question has often popped up in different biological contexts, ever since learning that the sickle-cell mutation (one copy, for reduced negatives) confers resistance to malarial infection.