Sentences with phrase «evolutionary adaptations»

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).

Her work imagines, for humans specifically, how radical evolutionary adaptations can be advantageous to survive in an altered climate.

They're all slightly different, each with its own evolutionary adaptations such as a shorter tail or a longer nose.

MORRIS, J.G. Idiosyncratic nutrient requirements of cats appear to be diet - induced evolutionary adaptations.

The cat's body has many specific evolutionary adaptations to its expected diet of prey consisting mostly of protein, fat and moisture.

These are evolutionary adaptations.

In this passionate analysis of the human condition, renowned biologist Wilson guides us through the great maze of evolutionary adaptations that led to our ancestors» «advanced social life,» the biological wellspring for tribalism, art, and morality.

It's one of the most bizarre evolutionary adaptations I've seen in the years I've been covering film.

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However, Yakutian horses have adapted to the extremely cold temperatures in less than 800 years — a blink of the eye in terms of evolutionary adaptations.

It has therefore been long suspected that vampire bats have highly specific evolutionary adaptations, which would be documented in their genome, and most likely also have an unusual microbiome, the community of micro-organisms assembled in their digestive tract which may help with the digestion of blood.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits, including diseases, of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits (including diseases) of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

«The results suggest that many evolutionary adaptations can be traced back to random mutations.

The first views religion as a «byproduct» of other evolutionary adaptations such as larger brains.

EPAS1 and ELGN1 predictably popped out as strong candidates for evolutionary adaptations, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Evolutionary adaptations in the human spine may explain why pregnant women stay upright.

Identifying evolutionary adaptations to these problems and likely paths to them required the team to build two sets of data.

These are evolutionary adaptations to protect healthy brains from potentially damaging immune responses.

«Our new approach is poised to reveal the evolutionary adaptations for countless other environments, from the sea, high altitudes, the desert, or even underground.»

A suite of evolutionary adaptations, both anatomical and physiological, has allowed them to live where water is scarce.

«We think all result from evolutionary adaptations to a stressful environment.»

Synchrotron X-ray imaging on different species showed that the transmission of the sound from the oral cavity to the inner ear has been optimized by two evolutionary adaptations: a reduced thickness of the tissue between the mouth and the inner ear and a smaller number of tissue layers between the mouth and the inner ear.

In their study, the researchers found no evidence for the widespread idea that evolutionary adaptations to these two aspects of climate change would interfere with each other.

«We had thought that the plant's evolutionary adaptations might save it, or that natural seed dispersal might help it survive,» said Panetta.

Other Darwinists have argued that rape and inner «city teenage pregnancy are evolutionary adaptations.

And evolutionary adaptations are neither good nor bad, only useful or not useful for a given time and place.

As evolutionary adaptations to ecological circumstances, our states of awareness are causally dependent on those circumstances.

The «more primitive elements of animal consciousness — palpable hunger and thirst, fear and rage, pleasure and pain — are as clearly evolutionary adaptations to an ever more elaborate ecosystem as fur and feathers, toes and digits, eyes and ears.»

I'm pretty sure their cuteness is an evolutionary adaptation to ensure that we raise them to adulthood.

The following posts support infant carrying as an evolutionary adaptation and a biological imperative, as well as highlighting areas that need more research.

First, as hypothesized by James McKenna, night wakings may help prevent SIDS [10], they are necessary for cue - feeding given the size of an infant's stomach [11], and may even be an evolutionary adaptation to ensure someone is close by and caring for the infant, ensuring his or her survival.

«In fact, they spontaneously adopt this posture without ever being told to do so, which likely reflects another evolutionary adaptation.»

During this long history of evolutionary adaptation, human beings slowly evolved mechanisms and practices for childbirth.

How this mutation alters wing colors is still a mystery, but the discovery helps decipher the nuts and bolts of evolutionary adaptation.

«There are two ways to handle that: one is to go extinct, the other is to make some sort of evolutionary adaptation,» says Villmoare.

O'Neill says that the time - varying response may be an evolutionary adaptation.

The horizontal axis corresponds to evolution time and the vertical axis to the population's degree of evolutionary adaptation.

If so, the selection of food sources by honeybees indicates an extraordinary evolutionary adaptation for colony success through partnership between two interacting organisms.

Osedax, commonly known as bone - eating worms, are marine annelid worms that are an important example of evolutionary adaptation to a specialised habitat: the bones of vertebrates sunk in the sea.

According to Oakley, this new research suggests an evolutionary adaptation.

But they suggest that the ability to recognize these threat conditions is an evolutionary adaptation to help females protect their offspring - to - be from harm.

This effect is thought to be an evolutionary adaptation that facilitates group living and may be shared with other primate species.

One hypothesis for why a mate preference shift occurs is that it may be an evolutionary adaptation that served our ancestors» reproductive interests long before modern medicine, nutrition and sanitation dramatically reduced infant and child mortality rates.

As a graduate student, Bruckner accepted what she was taught, that the foot, a bewildering heap of 26 bones and 23 joints, is a marvelous biomechanical contraption that propels humans with speed and remarkable control — proof of evolutionary adaptation.

When the mitochondrial translation rate increases, the mTOR signaling pathway is activated, which causes the increase in the cytoplasmic protein translation rate to counteract pressure from the increased mitochondrial translation, thus representing a new evolutionary adaptation mechanism.

This is the first example of adaptive evolution triggered by interspecies introgression in domesticated animals, which gave us a clue that introgression event between divergent species may be an important resource for evolutionary adaptation and could largely facilitate this process.

New research led by Holton and colleagues at the UI posits that our chins don't come from mechanical forces such as chewing, but instead results from an evolutionary adaptation involving face size and shape — possibly linked to changes in hormone levels as we became more societally domesticated.

«This situation triggered an evolutionary adaptation to a high - protein diet — an enlarged liver, expanded renal system and their corresponding morphological manifestations.

Even after more than two thousand generations under acidified conditions, these responses still prevail to some extent, suggesting that evolutionary adaptation may not be able to completely eliminate the negative effects of ocean acidification.