Sentences with phrase «as evolutionary»

This gender difference has been interpreted as an evolutionary strategy used to ensure offspring are provided for (Buss and Schmitt, 1993), however it could equally reflect socialisation processes concerning gender roles.

Supporting the notion of cultural traits as evolutionary adaptations, recent cross-national evidence shows that cultural values of individualism and collectivism serve an adaptive, «anti-pathogen» function, protecting vulnerable geographical regions from increased spread of disease - causing pathogens via the promotion of collectivistic social norms, such as conformity and parochialism (Fincher et al. 2008).

If preferences are not as predetermined as evolutionary theorist claim, they can change relatively quickly over time (i.e., social learning).

As evolutionary psychologists explain, the.70 waist - to - hip ratio suggests that a woman is more fertile and more well suited for bearing children (or what your grandmother might have called «good child bearing hips»).

However, the theoretical aspects of this therapy — such as evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and affective neuroscience — can make CFT difficult to grasp.

It makes for an intriguing read, but with all due respect to the author, I would list most of the innovations as evolutionary innovation rather than disruptive innovation.

For example, WestlawNext, which is marketed as an evolutionary step in legal research that provides greater assistance to human - decision making by providing you more «relevant» results, feeds your search queries and decision - making back into the system to help determine relevancy for every other user.

Gold also sees value as an evolutionary process: «We try and get underneath a client's skin; for us it's a privilege to sit by their side.

Thinking about anxiety as an evolutionary response is helpful, as we often try to understand our anxiety from a logical place.

While, as I've said many times before, the concepts in electronic discovery are straight - forward and EDD should be seen as evolutionary rather than revolutionary, the details, the tools, the practical questions, and the application of law and rules to specific facts can be confusing, complicated and challenging.

As their evolutionary history would predict, today's greatest concentrations and greatest diversity of corals are found in the earth's persistently warmer waters, like the Indo - Pacific Warm Pool.

«If a substantial number of lowland tropical species are already living near their upper temperature limit, as evolutionary principles, climate history and recent studies suggest,» he added, «then lowland biotas may undergo attrition, as some species shift upwards in elevation, and others suffer decreased fitness in the lowlands.»

There's nothing as powerful as the evolutionary principle.

Gene prediction is only meaningful in large populations (as evolutionary theory clearly implies).

But until then, I have to place it in a big bin of suspect studies «done by people out to prove something rather than investigate something,» as the evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen said in a late update to my previous post on this work.

Global warming is the subject of «Migrations of the Arthropods», Paul's 2012 photo and video work in which wearable structures are created using recycled plastic bottles to affect a transformation from human to insect, thus re-envisioning Kafka's «Metamorphosis» as an evolutionary survival mechanism.

Think of Axiom Verge as the evolutionary Metroid.

Most of the changes rank as evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.

The new Generali Global Assistance Travel Insurance consumer website has been designed as an evolutionary customer journey platform, to guide consumers at any stage of their journey — research, buying, or servicing.

In this sense, the companion dog may be regarded as an evolutionary work in progress [5], proving highly adaptable and malleable to human needs, but the niche into which dogs must evolve continues to shift.

Many industry observers see the thinning of the pet specialty retail herd as an evolutionary process, with business acumen largely separating the winners from the losers.

Likewise, cichlids all have an array of characteristics that identify them as evolutionary cousins.

Your kitty may simply be incorporating his paws into feeding time as an evolutionary instinct.

That early education allowed an understanding of the fundamental role that sound nutrition (translated today as evolutionary nutrition) plays in health.

• Bloomsbury is launching a new popular science imprint, Sigma, which will feature books on subjects such as evolutionary biology, astronomy, robotics, bioengineering and climatology.

It is definitely categorized as evolutionary rather than revolutionary in terms of changes, but that is perhaps the whole idea of the Mustang.

Photos of the 2015 Audi TT and TTS, revealed as an evolutionary design of Audi's sports coupe at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show.

But most likely, automotive analysts say, direct injection will help serve as an evolutionary bridge to those more exotic options.

If the addition of niceties like power windows, power locks and a navigation system has you worried that the Wrangler has gotten soft, you'll be happy to know that the changes inside are as evolutionary as the changes outside.

Although CEO Mike Flewitt described the shape of the McLaren P13 as evolutionary, design director Frank Stephenson promises a breakthrough product with a distinctly different bodystyle: «Ferraris must look like Ferraris, and Porsches invariably look like Porsches, but there is no fixed formula for a McLaren.

As an evolutionary design, the new 5 seems to ignore the previous - generation car and jump back to the 1995 - 2003 E39 - series for inspiration.

Although the exterior may break some new ground, the 335i's mechanicals are best described as evolutionary.

It's a nice surprise, then, that It Follows plays neither as a childlike regression nor an apotheosis into serious filmmaking, but as an evolutionary early step in what ought to be a fascinating career: an impeccably crafted little thriller that's actually about something, if not too many things.

Most of today's westerns, what few there are, are of this sophisticated tradition, so this remake isn't so much revolutionary as evolutionary.

Despite its underlying emotional content, the tempo is standard stuff, and the injection of dance numbers roots it as an evolutionary animated feature, not a revolutionary one.

As an evolutionary biologist, I've always been amazed at the hardiness of plants.

Research suggests that as an evolutionary survival mechanism, the body conserves NAD + when subjected to calorie restriction.

This uses food as an evolutionary tool, a way to play with the possibilities of what a particular diet can do for the body.

When the researchers sequenced the samples for genetic mutations and analyzed chromosome structure, they could trace the tumors» evolutionary histories, much as evolutionary biologists trace the origins of organisms back to their common ancestors based on fossils deposited in different geologic eras.

By analyzing gene expression and measured traits in aneuploids and polyploids, and in their hybrids, he derived the Gene Balance Hypothesis, an encompassing concept that can explain hybrid vigor (heterosis), as well as evolutionary selection in polyploids and in duplicated genes.

As an evolutionary biologist dabbling in neuroethology, I'm interested in the forces, from molecule to environment, which shape biodiversity in nature.

With over 40 Solar - masses, extremely high luminosity, a variable spectra, and surrounding ejecta, it is classified as a Luminous Blue Variable like Eta Carinae, as an extremely large star that are now often regarded as the evolutionary link between main - sequence O stars and the more evolved, smaller but similarly explosive, Wolf - Rayet stars.

The researchers identified an avian system — crows and ravens of the genus Corvus — that they used as an evolutionary model to decipher the genetic underpinnings of speciation.

Solar - like oscillators span a wide range of masses and metallicities, as well as evolutionary phases.

His instincts as an evolutionary biologist told him that the mutation rates he was seeing in the short term were the correct ones.

Trained as an Evolutionary Biologist and Anthropologist, he has developed morphometric and statistical methods to investigate complex patterns of morphological and genetic variation.

Some specialized diets, such as ectoparasitism (insects feeding on vertebrate hosts), evolve rarely and act as evolutionary traps, from which other diets do not easily evolve, whilst others, such as predation and fungivory, evolve frequently and readily give rise to other dietary types.

Professor in Scientific Computing; Training as an evolutionary biologist working with water frogs in the Mediterranean Sea; Distributor of the Bayesian population genetics inference program MIGRATE.

The researchers modeled their approach on a scientific field known as evolutionary developmental biology, or evo - devo as it's often called.

If noise is a trait encoded in the sequence of the gene, evolution may be able to fine - tune it, just as the evolutionary process might make a predator faster or a fish a better swimmer.