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A comment on Evolutionary Advantages of an Addictive Personality.

Re:Evolutionary Advantages of an Addictive Personality by myth_drannon on Monday January 21, 2019 @10:53PM (#18965889)
If anyone is unfamiliar with the work of Gabor Mate, he basically says childhood trauma is the source of our addictions. Listen to his talk on Tim Ferris's podcast.
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Re:Evolutionary Advantages of an Addictive Personality by toasterlovin on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:31PM (#18970858)
Susceptibility to addiction is highly heritable (around 50% of variation is due to genetic factors according to this[0]).

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506170/

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