The continuing emergence of a clinically helpful behavioral biology is a basic scientific trend in contemporary psychiatry and medicine. Much of this new knowledge describes the genetic, maturational and learned developmental structure and physiology of the behaving brain and body. The dichotomy between the depersonalized body and the disembodied person is no longer very productive either for pragmatic or for heuristic purposes. The growing science of behavioral genetics indicates that man is never an “empty” or a “standard” organism. Specific motivational and capacity factors are genetically conditioned. Since medicine deals largely with the phenotypic individual, ordinary clinical assessment of symptoms and behavior may entirely miss the genotypic differences between persons who are labelled with the same but genetically non-differentiating diagnosis of schizophrenia, epilepsy and other diseases. The increasing knowledge of molecular biology coupled with the genetic study of animal behavior has given us an increasing awareness of our own evolved behavior. Some of this behavior originally “bred in” as adaptive to environments now remote in time,
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