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by rjprins 251 days ago
Evolution is a continuous random branching and selective pruning process. And there is not a lot of pruning going on in the current human explosion. So unless ADHD is an old branch and we see other mammals survive because of their distractability, I remain skeptical.
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I think of it in terms of explore/exploit. I imagine ADHD is more on the former side of the spectrum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%E2%80%93exploitati...