Of all the mental illnesses schizophrenia eludes us the most. No matter the strides scientists have made in neurological research nor doctors have made in psychiatric treatment schizophrenia remains misunderstood almost complacently mythologized. Without a reason for the illness patients feel even more alienated than they already do families are left hopeless and doctors struggle to provide accurate care. Steven Lesk though after a medical career dedicated to those affected by schizophrenia and a determination to find the answer to its existence presents a groundbreaking theory that will forever change the lives of the mentally ill. In Footprints of Schizophrenia The Evolutionary Roots of Madness Lesk threads evolutionary evidence with neurological evidence turning the mysteries of our minds into a tapestry of logic. With his breakthrough theory and this unprecedented book Lesk will invite necessary cultural dialogue about this stigmatized illness provoke new psychiatric and pharmacological research and provide unequivocal comfort to those afflicted and affected by schizophrenia.Leskamprsquos ampldquoprimitive organization theoryamprdquo is based in human evolution from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens and the specific changes to our brains after the emergence of language. We have existed in humanlike form for six million years but weamprsquove only had language for 50000 within the vast span of evolutionary time thatamprsquos hardly any time at all. Lesk elucidates us to the hormones affected by language especially dopamine and with brilliant clarity connects human evolution our brain affected by language and those with schizophrenia whose dopamine doesnamprsquot flow in our new adaptive way. In other words the twenty million people who have schizophrenia in the world donamprsquot suppress dopamine in the way evolution has trained us so their brains donamprsquot process language well and function as if theyamprsquore in a hallucinatory delusional dream state. Not only