Alcoholism and antisocial personality. The sociobiology of an addiction.
Alcohol consumption may become adaptive from the evolutionary viewpoint when drinking settings and intoxication can be used to enhance the "cheating" reproductive strategy of antisocial personality disorder. This may explain the selective pressures leading to the association of familial alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder.
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D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008957:Models, Genetic; D012098:Reproduction; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012919:Social Behavior