>>11415751schizophrenia actually lowers your IQ
also IQ matters significantly less on a schizo as you wont be able to use it when being busy to imagine paranoid scenarios and processing impressions of things that your brain projects as reality (illusions, hallucinations, etc.)
>Shouldn't the genes that cause it have been lost long ago through natural selectionthere are many things that can trigger schizophrenia such as smoking excessive amounts of pot in teens or social conditioning that cause schizophrenia in people who have a genetic proclivity for it
i dont think that you can inherit it, just a likelihood of it breaking out, depending on some outer factors