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October 11, 2025Open Access

Autism, or Pathologised Evolution?

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Overview

Cross-disciplinary analysis reveals autism as adaptive variation, highlighting genomic traits and environmental impacts.

Key Points

  • Findings suggest autism is shaped by biological architectures, indicating a two-stage divergence model grounded in evolutionary traits.
  • The research synthesizes insights from molecular genetics and immunology, emphasizing the role of epigenetic mechanisms in autism.
  • This synthesis identifies a distinction between inherited genomic variation and environmentally induced dysfunction, calling for a reframing of autism.
  • The proposed framework emphasizes system-level accountability, highlighting the need for informed classifications and interventions.

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Alexandra Chambers (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e9b1d9ba7d64b6fc132edchttps://doi.org/10.14293/pr2199.002072.v1
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