Sentences with phrase «evolutionary advantages in»

Why is it god, as opposed to simply a biochemical / hormonal phenomenon that bestows an evolutionary advantage in living beings, since it ensures protection of one's own genes?

In the early stages of human evolution, biochemical «inflammatory» responses developed to give an evolutionary advantage in coping with «attack» from microbes, etc..

Women who are in a caloric rich environment who could wean their infants earlier would have an evolutionary advantage in producing more offspring.

Why has there hitherto been an evolutionary advantage in developing human potential for aggression rather than the capacity to love?

Richard Dawkins says there is an evolutionary advantage in believing what authority figures tell us: Children would wander off into the woods if they didn't heed their parents» admonition to stay near their homes.

In addition, carrying around a little extra fat became an evolutionary advantage in case food became scarce.

Where is the evolutionary advantage in this?

A cat's reaction time is very rapid, almost like a reflex that happens without complete thought or planning, and it is an evolutionary advantage in the wild.

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That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well - developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recent recession:

Evolutionary psychologist Jonathan Haidt argued in The Righteous Mind that human groups practising moralistic religions would have had huge advantages over those that didn't.

However, to explain the origin of DNA as the mechanism of inheritance, evolutionary theory requires that hundreds of millions of small changes must be retained for thousands upon thousands of generations without producing any survival advantage until some point in the dim and distant future when, lo and behold, they suddenly start working together.

How would having, say, just the wiring mutation be an evolutionary advantage to the organism if it didn't have the eyes or processing ability in place to develop a function that would allow it to thrive over the common organism with no mutation?

«It would stand as a tremendous evolutionary advantage for children to be able to quickly identify sources of calories,» says Robin Dando, researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Food Sciences in the Department of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.

Anyway RM - in answer to your question, a meme is a belief or attitude or a form of social behaviour which exists for no obvious genetic purpose, brings no evolutionary advantage, but nevertheless spreads throughout society with alarming rapidity.

This is a brilliant evolutionary advantage of mammalian lactation, but it doesn't really apply in today's developed societies, where most children have ready access to more than enough calories and nutrients.

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

In The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neurons.

Elsewhere in the animal kingdom, the instinct to hoard offers clear evolutionary advantages.

«Despite the overwhelming evidence linking dietary salt to disease in humans, the potential evolutionary advantage of storing so much salt in the body has not been clear,» says senior study author Jens Titze, who studies the link between sodium metabolism and disease at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

This latest study is one of only a few well - documented examples of what evolutionary biologists call «character displacement,» in which similar species competing with each other evolve differences to take advantage of different ecological niches.

Europeans must have incurred a rapid change in their genetic make - up because it held an evolutionary advantage for them to be able to digest milk, says Mark Thomas at University College London in the UK, who carried out the study with colleagues.

«Although there are advantages to living in cities, such as the access to food, they seem to be outweighed by the disadvantages, such as stress — at least in terms of how quickly the cells of the great tits age,» says biologist Pablo Salmón who conducts research in the field of evolutionary ecology at the Faculty of Science, Lund University.

From an evolutionary perspective, it does not matter what you believe in, as long as that belief works to give you a selective advantage.

Clear signals of fertility and the willingness to do something about it bring major evolutionary advantages: ripe eggs lead to healthier pregnancies, which leads to more of your genes in succeeding generations, which is what evolution is all about.

Frey and colleagues argue that robustness in the face of changes in the concentrations of components could provide an evolutionary advantage, insofar as it endows cells with a higher degree of flexibility.

Keep in mind that, for these genetic changes to persist from generation to generation, they must convey some evolutionary advantage.

More than just an insurance policy against late frosts or unexpected dry spells, it turns out that seed dormancy has long - term advantages too: Plants whose seeds put off sprouting until conditions are more certain give rise to more species, finds in a team of researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina.

One possibility is that genes that predispose people to such devastating illnesses persist because when the syndromes are present in a milder form, this heightened creativity gives people an evolutionary advantage.

For a cat raiding a grain store in a primitive village, being tolerant of humans became an evolutionary advantage.

That gives the snake an advantage in an evolutionary arms race.

From the geographic pattern, Yoshiura and his coworkers concluded that dry earwax arose among prehistoric populations in northeast Eurasia and then spread to East Asia, possibly because of an evolutionary advantage it provided to its carriers.

In people there's no evolutionary advantage to fending off cancer, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, cataracts, Alzheimer's, and other banes of the aged, because these conditions usually show up long after genes have been passed on to the next generation.

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While the specialized adaptations of our hands have long been assumed as a major evolutionary advantage, the human hand is less developed in terms of evolution than that of a chimp, having changed little from the hands of the last common ancestor shared with our simian cousins millions of years ago, scientists report.

«We suspect these multiple copies provide a reservoir to adapt to different environments and plant hosts, and constitute an evolutionary advantage over their sexual relatives (at least in the short term).

Though the switch may have evolved as an accidental consequence of a shape change in an unimportant functioning part of the Sup35, its conservation suggests an evolutionary advantage.

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But regardless of which one benefits more, microbes usually have an edge on their hosts in one major area, she said: «There are many more microbe generations, [so] the microbes have an evolutionary advantage.»

Homologous meiotic recombination occurs in most sexually reproducing organisms, yet its evolutionary advantages are elusive.

While today profuse sweating is a social embarrassment, in the past it gave us an evolutionary advantage.

And I think we know this, there's some people who are just a little bit more anxious than others and that diversity in human personality probably helped us evolutionarily and so I think there was obviously an evolutionary advantage for someone who's nervous system was a bit more responsive.

The physiological ketosis of starvation makes sound evolutionary sense, as ketone bodies have several thermodynamic advantages over other nutritional substrates, in addition to their actions to conserve protein and glucose stores.

So if our ancestors retained an advantage in the mate selection game simply by indicating health and fertility via fat storage and weight management during times of scarcity, that would clearly be an evolutionary advantage.

It doesn't matter if this has evolutionary advantage, or is purely hedonistic; women are put in the position of having to establish boundaries from the start.

Dogs, in general, have a sweet demeanor towards humans as it has been an evolutionary advantage.

Lets say a more powerful PlayStation 5 comes out instead of an evolutionary console, it means that gamers are going to expect another ramp up in production costs to take advantage of the new hardware features, publishers will need to wait for the install base to grow on PS5 and also risk everything on next generation development.

Cultures established in our evolutionary trajectory because they were such a selective advantage, and indeed still provide many benefits.

In the evolutionary process, creatures using the visible range would be at a distinct advantage hence over a very long time, you end up with a lot of species that use the visible range for «seeing».