Evolutionary models of human drug use
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title:
Evolutionary models of human drug use
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Evolutionary models of drug use seek to explain human drug usage from the perspective of evolutionary fitness. Plants for instance, may provide fitness benefits by relieving pain. Proponents of this model of drug use suggest that the consumption of pharmacological substances for medicinal purposes evolved in the backdrop of human-plant coevolution as a means of self-medication. Humans thus learned to ignore the cues of plant toxicity because ingesting the bioactive compounds of plants in small a
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Drug use vs. human evolutionary fitness
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_models_of_human_drug_use
date created:
2017-04-30T05:52:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T08:40:43Z
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