Psychosis and autism as diametrical disorders of the social brain (2008)
Crespi, Bernard, Badcock, Christopher
Autistic-spectrum conditions and psychotic-spectrum conditions (mainly schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression) represent two major suites of disorders of human cognition, affect, and...
Evolutionary biology of cancer (2008)
Cancer is driven by the somatic evolution of cell lineages that have escaped controls on replication and by the population-level evolution of genes that influence cancer risk. We describe here how...
Maternal care and sexual selection in Elaphrothrips tuberculatus. (1982)
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/53496/1/1931.pdf
Cadherins in maternal–foetal interactions: red queen with a green beard?
Summers, Kyle, Crespi, Bernard
Cadherins are homophilic cell surface adhesion proteins, some of which mediate interactions between maternal and foetal tissues during mammalian pregnancy. David Haig suggested that these proteins...
Adaptive evolution of genes underlying schizophrenia
Crespi, Bernard, Summers, Kyle, Dorus, Steve
Schizophrenia poses an evolutionary-genetic paradox because it exhibits strongly negative fitness effects and high heritability, yet it persists at a prevalence of approximately 1% across all human...