Demaret, Albert (1933-2011)

A psychiatrist from Liège and a pioneer in evolutionary psychology, he was known for his work on mental anorexia and manic-depression. In his book Ethologie et psychiatrie: Valeur de Survie et Phylogenèse des Maladies Mentales, published in 1979, he determined that human pathological behaviour contained the fundamental characteristics of evolutionary adaptive behaviours to the natural environment.