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Justin Garson on madness, psychiatry, functions, evolution

Thing in itself

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Function

In the 1980s, theorists like Ruth Milliken and Karen Eander were trying to put in one definition of function. They found that it's really hard to make sense of what is going on in biological world. The concept of function probably isn't going to neatly make sense of human design," he says. "You can give a function to anything at any time"

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