Sentences with phrase «evolutionary roots dacher»

Fertility preference inversely related to «legacy drive» in women, but not in men: interpreting the evolutionary roots, and future, of the «childfree» culture

The GGSC's faculty director explains new discoveries revealing the evolutionary roots of human compassion.

Our partner site, ThoseLoveGeeks.com, has just released a new podcast where they chat with Dr. David Buss about the evolutionary roots of hooking up.

An article such as «Evolutionary roots of iodine and thyroid hormones in cell signaling» does not fit that bill, to name just one example of Crockford's scientific articles that has been pointed out as evidence of her having published on polar bear ecology.

Andy, You may be right that skepticism has evolutionary roots.

Innate skepticism stems from deep evolutionary roots, and is not a product of any of the very many ideologies humans have had (most are forgotten).

But while her soon - to - be-released book, «The Royal Treatment: A Natural Approach to Wildly Healthy Pets,» is peppered with plenty of crazy tales of all the exotic animals she's encountered, the premise for owners of more pedestrian pets is simple: Let your pet's innate evolutionary roots dictate his care.

Caloric restriction may have its evolutionary roots as a survival mechanism, allowing species to survive on scraps when food is scarce in order to continue to reproduce.

The findings, published online in Cell Reports on Dec. 10, 2015, offer a glimpse into the evolutionary roots of the circadian clock and point to potential applications in synthetic biology.

The technique, dubbed SWIF (r), could be helpful in piecing together the evolutionary history of people around the world, and in shedding light on the evolutionary roots of certain diseases and medical conditions.

The origin of science: On the evolutionary roots of science and its implications for self - education and citizen science.

Moreover, because some bird lice seem to have deeper evolutionary roots than mammal lice do, the team suggests that birds — whose feathers make a good roosting place for lice — became infested first and then passed the pests on to mammals.

Researchers suspect humor has deep evolutionary roots — in 1872 Charles Darwin noticed chimpanzees giggling as they played — and many argue that the laws of natural selection can help explain the complex senses of humor we have today.

The answer seems to lie in the evolutionary roots of our large brains.

[For more on how a negative mood boosts cognition, see «Depression's Evolutionary Roots,» by Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson; Scientific American Mind, January / February 2010.]

Researchers seeking the evolutionary roots of the animal kingdom have discovered a bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, that acts as an aphrodisiac by releasing an enzyme that sends the choanoflagellate, Salpinogoeca rosetta, one of the closest living relatives of animals, into a full mating frenzy.

Among the 31,000 plants listed in the Flora of China (FOC) are some that offer the hope of treatments for malaria and HIV, and others that illuminate the evolutionary roots of the plant kingdom.

Dr Clint Perry, another lead author of the study, added: «Despite the obvious differences between humans and other animals, understanding social learning and culture in animals holds a key to understanding the evolutionary roots of the peculiarities of social learning and culture in humans.»

That's the conclusion of a controversial new study, which reaches far back into our family tree to uncover the evolutionary roots of lethal violence among more than 1000 mammalian species.

An updated edition of Sapolsky's eminently readable treatise on the evolutionary roots, biological pathways, and health consequences of the human stress response.

The results, Titze says, reveal the evolutionary roots of how and why voice arose.

The finding adds to the growing evidence that friendship is an adaptation with deep evolutionary roots.

If this preference truly has evolutionary roots, it follows that male chins would be broader, on average, than female chins.

A pair of studies suggests the evolutionary roots of humanlike cooperation can be seen in chimpanzees, albeit in rudimentary forms.

Eventually, these defenders conceded that evolutionary roots of certain cherished human cognitive abilities could indeed be found in nonhuman animals, but only in large - brained mammals, particularly in apes.

Behavioral biologist Dario Maestripieri launches from this example into a spirited, insightful narrative that explores the ways our interpersonal relationships resemble those of our primate cousins, suggesting evolutionary roots for a range of social behaviors including nepotism, cultivating friends, and climbing the corporate ladder.

The sequencing of genomes of 48 bird species explains the evolutionary roots of vocalization and could offer insight into human speech disorders

If I'm confused or confounded more than 15 % of the time, then it's time to recapitulate my ancestral evolutionary roots and see where I lost alignment and radically pull some weeds.

In Our Babies, Ourselves, Small writes not just as an anthropologist, wanting to observe and record human behavior and how it relates to our biological and evolutionary roots as mammals, but also from an ethnopediatrics perspective, which seeks to advise us as parents how to integrate babies» innate needs with our culture in an infant - appropriate way.

A call to return to our evolutionary roots; to get in sync with our metabolic design honed through eons of survival to optimize mental and physical health.

This implies that cancer genes, and the mechanisms that allow tumour cells to evade apoptosis, «have deep evolutionary roots».

To get a proper and adequate understanding of human freedom, one has to see man in the total context of evolution, for freedom did not start with man; it had its evolutionary roots at the infrahuman level.

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age is about the evolutionary roots of religious behavior.

It is a limitation of New Thought that, like most traditions that trace their evolutionary roots in terms of the ancient Greek philosophers, it does not acknowledge the African (Kemetic) contributions to the Greek wisdom teachings.

«Here's some evidence that we aren't alone in the world in this, and there are evolutionary roots to our behavior.»

There is an evolutionary root to the differences in how men and women seek out allies and it is driven by the need for social survival in the long run.

Not exact matches

It's no wonder she couldn't find the roots of morality, she was looking in evolutionary science.

According to the standard evolutionary view, the study of primate behaviour is particularly relevant for understanding the roots of our own nature.

For Wilson these roots and some of this knowledge are themselves guided by what he believes are the universal and eternal principles of Darwinian evolutionary theory Wilson never acknowledges that, by relying on that theory and by generalizing it, he subscribes to principles that transcend particular histories just as surely as do the ideas of the theological and philosophical transcendentalists.

Indeed, I see a lot of the contempt for animals I see in this world stemming from the human hubris of assuming that we are fundamentally separate from the animal world, which we clearly aren't and evolutionary theory explains a lot about how deeply rooted in the rest of the animate world we are.

Because evolutionary cosmologies are invariably rooted in the tradition of speculative and mystical Naturphilosophie, tend to favor a Lamarckian over a Darwinian approach to evolution itself, and are often wildly speculative and imaginative in content, such cosmologies do not enjoy much favor in contemporary philosophical circles.

Visionary reason is rooted in the evolutionary origin and history of life.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolutEvolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolutevolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

And anthropological research suggests that practices associated with AP — such as baby - wearing and co-sleeping — have deep roots in our evolutionary past (Konner 2005).

The 7 B's of attachment parenting (or what I like to consider just evolutionary parenting, seeing as its roots exist in our history and evolution) are most likely to be helpful for those with these higher needs children.

But recent studies on primates and preschool children suggest that the development of mendacity is more subtle than this and may have its roots deep in our evolutionary past.

The new technique used software to assign the cancer cell with the fewest mutations as the ancestral clone and place it at the root of the evolutionary family tree, with the other clones arranged as branches above it.

Given its apparently ancient roots, many scientists would like to believe that menopause must have some hidden evolutionary benefits.

«Its stems, leaves, and roots are dwarfed,» says Charles Davis, the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who collected the flowers in the jungles of Borneo.

When Pennsylvania State University evolutionary biologist Blair Hedges is rooting around in dead leaves on his hands and knees, hunting for the tiniest animals alive, he grabs for any flash of movement he sees.