It is possible to make up thousands of Just So stories about adaptation. What makes the Topological Theory of Autism different from any of these?
Yes, it is easy to make up Just So stories about evolutionary adaptations. An imaginative person can invent “adaptive reasons” for almost any trait. For example, one can find in noses an adaptation to party masks and in elbows an adaptation to dinner tables. What makes the present theory different from these is the stark unavoidability of the fact that every population always has a surface. An ancient person may or may not have had party masks or a dinner table, but the person’s population (and all ancestor populations) always had a surface. This is not a matter of fancy, but of fact. It is like an x-ray into all past history. For the reason of its unrelenting certainty, the fact of population surfaces is strongly expected to leave a genetic imprint. Few Just So stories can claim this degree of certainty in their premises, and it is this concrete certainty that sets the Topological Theory of Autism apart from them.
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