Editing Eating disorder (section)

== Evolutionary perspective ==
[[Evolutionary psychiatry]] as an emerging scientific discipline has been studying [[mental disorder]]s from an evolutionary perspective. If eating disorders have evolutionary functions or if they are new modern "lifestyle" problems is still debated.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Abed RT |title=The sexual competition hypothesis for eating disorders |journal=The British Journal of Medical Psychology |volume=71 |issue=4 |pages=525–547 |date=December 1998 |pmid=9875960 |doi=10.1111/j.2044-8341.1998.tb01007.x}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Nettersheim J, Gerlach G, Herpertz S, Abed R, Figueredo AJ, Brüne M |title=Evolutionary Psychology of Eating Disorders: An Explorative Study in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa |journal=Frontiers in Psychology |volume=9 |pages=2122 |date=2018-10-31 |pmid=30429818 |pmc=6220092 |doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02122 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Williams DM |date=2020-06-01 |title=Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry. By Randolph M. Nesse. New York: Dutton (Penguin Random House). $28.00 (paper). xvii + 365 p.; ill.; index. ISBN 9781101985663 (hc); 9781101985687 (eb). 2019. |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=95 |issue=2 |pages=146–147 |doi=10.1086/709059 |s2cid=243689055 |issn=0033-5770}}</ref>