Newer research now suggests that dyslexia is not at all a disorder but a specialization in exploration, that was selected during human evolution. People with dyslexia (and these can be up to 10-20% of a population) are specialized to explore the unknown and this can play a fundamental role in human adaptation to changing environments. Thus, without dyslexic people and their explorative hunter and gatherer skills, humanity would not have survived tough times during the last 300.000 years of its evolution. But then 5.000 years ago with the advent of written languages and their importance for cultural development, brains with rapid automated processing skills had an advantage over explorative brains and the readers and writers were the winners of this development. However, now with the help of computers and AI tools, explorative brains may play again an important role in human evolution if we manage not to destroy our planet during this time.

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