doi: 10.1017/S0140525X06319097.
Autism: Common, heritable, but not harmful
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- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X06319097
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Autism: Common, heritable, but not harmful
Morton Ann Gernsbacher et al. Behav Brain Sci.2006 Aug.
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We assert that one of the examples used by Keller & Miller (K&M), namely, autism, is indeed common, and heritable, but we question whether it is harmful. We provide a brief review of cognitive science literature in which autistics perform superiorly to non-autistics in perceptual, reasoning, and comprehension tasks; however, these superiorities are often occluded and are instead described as dysfunctions.
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- Resolving the paradox of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders: which evolutionary genetic models work best?Keller MC, Miller G.Keller MC, et al.Behav Brain Sci. 2006 Aug;29(4):385-404; discussion 405-52. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X06009095.Behav Brain Sci. 2006.PMID:17094843Review.
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