Title: Cognitive Variation as Evolutionary Inheritance: Reframing Neurodivergence Through Anthropology, Psychiatry, and Genetic Admixture Author: Christine DjerfDate: 2025-09-09Category: Theoretical PapersKeywords: Neurodivergence, Psychiatry, Evolution, Anthropology, Hominin Admixture, ADHD, Autism, DSM History AbstractModern psychiatry defines neurodivergence through frameworks of deviation from statistical norms. This paper argues that such traits — including ADHD, autism spectrum features, hypervigilance, and depressive withdrawal — are not pathologies but cognitive specializations traceable to human evolutionary history. Drawing from genetics, anthropology, and the…

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