DEPRESSION, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND MANIA IN HUMAN EVOLUTION

A tour through the suffering of mental illnesses becomes a guide to the inside evolutionary journey of our feelings and motivations.

Major depression

reveals how the ape mind evolved

Schizophrenia

shows how the ape mind transformed into the human mind in our ancestral species.

Mania

displays what our own Homo sapiens species brings to the evolutionary table.

Dominance

is our ape legacy.

 Justice

is the human instinct naturally selected to permit the engagement of

Teamwork,

the decisive human adaptation.

Vanity,

the desire to be desired,

drew together increasingly larger groups igniting

Culture,

the natural selection of knowhow across generations.