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In his 2001 book, "The Madness of Adam and Eve," the late David Horrobin, a British medical doctor and neuroscientist with an interest in evolution, proposed the radical theory that modern man developed suddenly from our ape ancestors about 100,000 years ago because of the skills and creativity of schizophrenics who lead the transformation in all facets of life.
He writes: "Schizophrenia, as well as being associated with mental illness and poor intellectual performance, may also be associated with the opposites." A few schizophrenic individuals themselves, but many first-degree relatives (parents, children, siblings), second-degree relatives (aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, grandparents) or third-degree relatives (first cousins) who share part of the schizophrenic genome, "are some of the highest-achieving and most creative individuals around."
He refers to the "phenomenon of the association between madness and genius," and mentions famous personalities he and others assert were either schizophrenic or schizotypal (mild schizophrenia). He lists Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin and others.
