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    It is not the case that Wakefield's evolutionary dysfunction account of disease is too restrictive because it excludes illnesses arising from biological structures with no evolved function

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    • 1.On Wakefield's account, evolutionary dysfunction is partly constitutive of disease
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    • 2.Some biological structures are spandrels, by-products, or have non-selective histories
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    • 3.A structure with no evolved function cannot malfunction in Wakefield's sense
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