Sentences with phrase «evolution has shaped»

Although evolution has shaped human infant crying and the corresponding response from caregivers, there is marked variation in paternal involvement and caretaking behavior, highlighting the importance of understanding the neurobiology supporting optimal paternal responses to cries.

And as evolution has shaped our adaptive toolbox, it is not surprising that it is chock - full of tools to solve problems such as finding food, avoiding predators, finding a mate and caring for offspring.

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Some evolutionary creationists have argued that this non-randomness of evolution is a way that God uses evolution to shape His creation (the best work on this topic is Life's Solution by noted Cambrian paleontologist Simon Conway Morris).

The key to this view of human being lies in what Bingham calls the «second Darwinian revolution,» through which we have learned that evolution shapes not only our bodies but also our minds.

I do not have the time to educate you on how evolution and natural selection has shaped our planet.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

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A review of the book says that its authors make a sound scientific case that males, rather than merely being providers, have also been shaped by evolution to care for their offspring.

In fact, anthropologists have discovered that cooperative childrearing, or alloparenting — related and unrelated members of the same species that help care for and provide sustenance for the children of others — shaped human evolution.

The evolution of the Internet has both mirrored and shaped the intense focus on self that is the hallmark of the post-boomer generation.

LONG before humans appeared on Earth, the plate tectonics of the East African Rift may have been shaping our ancestors» evolution.

While Schwartz believes in evolution, he says that the mechanism of neuroplasticity, which changes the shape of our brains, has likely shaped human evolution, too.

A new study shows similar patterns in the evolution of gut bacteria and the primates they live in, suggesting that germs and apes could have helped shaped one another.

«Clearly, venom evolution in these two snake species has been shaped by different forces.

The scientists are now planning further experiments study the co-evolution of dandelions and their root herbivores in order of find out whether the presence of root - feeding insects has shaped the plant defensive chemistry in the course of evolution and whether the insects show adaptations to dandelion defenses.

Combining the tools of psychology, evolutionary biology and archaeology, scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution.

One standout chapter discusses how scientists might unravel the evolution of language — linguists turn out to be almost as disputatious as paleontologists — and another speculates on how natural selection might have shaped human biology in modern times.

He suggests that biologists have conventionally taken the wrong approach to thinking about how oxygen shaped animal evolution.

Now scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape.

Lucy could not speak the way we do, because she most likely had air sacs, balloon - shaped organs that attach to an extension of the hyoid bone, says Bart de Boer, an expert in the evolution of speech at Vrije University in Brussels.

But the ancestral forms of this disease used different insect vectors and different malarial strains, and may literally have helped shape animal survival and evolution on Earth, according to George Poinar, Jr., a researcher in the College of Science at Oregon State University.

Evolution also had a hand in shaping the appeal of symmetry.

They point out that our minds, like our bodies, have been shaped by evolution: we have inherited ways of thinking from those of our ancestors whose mental tools were best adapted for survival and reproduction.

We employ similar pathways to shape our parts as embryos, but over the course of evolution, humans may have lost the ability to tap into it as adults, perhaps because the cell division required for regeneration elevated the likelihood of cancer.

Cosmic forces determine the abundances of the terrestrial elements, the ultimate source of energy for the Earth is the Sun, and cosmic events over the ages have shaped the course of the evolution of the Solar System.

«I'd go out on a limb and say not only that [interbreeding] played an important role in the evolution of all living apes, but that it shaped the evolution of extinct ones as well.»

Our progress in comprehending the history and mechanisms of evolution has led to powerful applications that shape a wide variety of fields today.

Offering hawk moths (Manduca sexta) a range of 3 - D printed flowers with different curvatures shows that a moderately curved trumpet shape lets moths sip most efficiently, Foen Peng reported June 24 at the Evolution 2017 meeting.

Whether» t is wiser to nourish a fetus in an external flap or grow it in a womb has shaped a new mystery of evolution

This is not the first time researchers have decided that food has shaped whale evolution.

But today, with an obesity epidemic in high gear, plasticity in weight has become a burden because the forces of evolution did not shape us to control our food intake.

As a result, the planet has shrunk in size over billions of years because of the same processes that shaped the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere and very likely that of both Mars and Venus.

But specifically how human variants of such genes shape our brain in development — and how they drove its evolution — have remained largely mysterious.

Your excellent piece on the evolution of humans and how civilisation has shaped us (19 March, p 36) reminded me...

The newly created Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected four initial researchers — Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego, James Collins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and Bassem Hassan of the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris — to receive $ 1.5 million each to study topics ranging from novel techniques for gene editing, how shapes and forms arise over the course of evolution, and how synthetic biology can create microbes that trap and kill dangerous bacteria.

We must explore how these climatic changes can affect the reproductive strategies which evolution has been shaping for thousands or millions of years»

Chitwood has now crossed his passions for plants and stringed instruments by publishing a study that documents the evolution of violin shapes using the same methods that he uses for charting the evolving form of leaves.

Kauffman, a complexity researcher and biologist of the University of Calgary and the Santa Fe Institute, has argued, for example, that self - organization — the propensity for systems to become more complex without outside guidance — was just as important as natural selection in shaping evolution.

Many researchers agree that shifts in climate and environment shaped human evolution, but there has been little direct evidence about exactly how.

For more than three decades evolutionary psychologists have advanced a simple theory of human sexuality: because men invest less reproductive effort in sperm than women do in eggs, men's and women's brains have been shaped differently by evolution.

Transposons have shaped the evolution of nearly every organism on Earth.

Although meat eating helped to shape the evolution of human brains, behavior and toolmaking, our early ancestors seem to have been better scavengers than hunters

Once scientists find out what it is, they may discover that it has had other effects in shaping the evolution of the cosmos.

In a stunning example of convergent evolution, Plotosaurus had evolved a body shape approaching that of the ichthyosaurs (Lethaia, vol 40, p 153).

Scientists increasingly realize the importance of gut and other microbes to our health and well - being, but one University of California, Berkeley, biologist is asking whether these microbes — our microbiota — might also have played a role in shaping who we are by steering evolution.

They were such a critical threat, she has long argued, that they shaped the emergence and evolution of primates.

Previously, researchers had suggested that over millions of years of evolution, hardened structures such as external scales gradually migrated into the mouth and changed shape to become teeth.

The Mars Exploration Program studies Mars as a planetary system in order to understand the formation and early evolution of Mars as a planet, the history of geological processes that have shaped Mars through time, the potential for Mars to have hosted life, and the future exploration of Mars by humans.

Using variations on their computer model, «we have already computed the shape of red blood cells, soap bubble clusters and the evolution of polycrystalline materials,» he says.

Plants are shaped by evolution to generally tolerate considerable disruption of chromosomal structure, but in reading this section of Smith's book we would never know that.