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Since the speculating was presented as fact and goes wildly against intuition.
Was it? I guess I just have a habit of reading anything on evpsych as speculation, no matter how it's worded. I can't really tell whether s/he thought s/he was presenting fact, or just suggesting an interesting line of inquiry.
In what way? As far as I can tell, s/he didn't suggest that was the only evolutionary function of depression, but merely that it may be one of them.
I read it as so, and that's about all I can say.
It doesn't make much sense that it would be adaptive to have a condition that commonly leads to suicide.