One potential explanation suggests that the evolutionary development of speech, language, and creativity, while bestowing significant gifts, has “dragged” along less desirable genetic tendencies with it; from this perspective, schizophrenia is simply the price humanity pays for the ability to write heartrending operas and earthshaking speeches. Another argument: schizophrenics are, evolutionarily, meant to be ad hoc “cult leaders” whose bizarre ideas split off chunks of the human population.
