The article talks about evolution, but weirdly seems to be about group selection. The trait would almost need to be an evolutionarily stable strategy for the theory to make sense? <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strate...</a><p>I'm definitely a novelty seeker. Some of my worrier friends can't deal with my life choices! Not diagnosed with ADHD, but I definitely have some adjacent behaviours.
> The possibility that what we now label as “symptoms” might have once been adaptive features<p>For me, this "but what if there was an upside" question has often popped up in different biological contexts, ever since learning that the sickle-cell mutation (one copy, for reduced negatives) confers resistance to malarial infection.