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June 22, 2018 56 mins
Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock are joined by evolutionary biologist and theorist Paul Watson to discuss whether depression is a feature or a bug. Paul Watson developed the social navigation hypothesis along with Ed Hagen, Paul Andrews, and others to explain depression as a unconscious way to break social contracts and make new ones. Watson now calls this the "niche change" hypothesis. This is part one of two.
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