Sentences with phrase «evolutionary basis»

Many people report an aversion to clusters of holes; a new study suggests a very smart evolutionary basis for the discomfort.

Yet the fish versus humans face - offs are eye - opening comparisons in his search for the deep evolutionary basis of what has blossomed into human mathematics.

«Songs are not a unique solution for soothing infants,» Trehub says, which makes creating a solely evolutionary basis for them problematic.

A few errant samples of dental plaque doesn't negate the foundation of evolutionary based eating.

Snedeker said she asks her students a question on exams to test their understanding of the shared structure and evolutionary basis of human language: «If we discover a new kind of creature on Mars that seems to have a symbolic system of great complexity, who should we send, and how likely are they to succeed?»

Of course science has a different story to tell us and until someone refutes the scientific basis for the age of the earth and the evolutionary basis for the creation of life the Biblical explanation should be taught only in religious schools and has no place in secular public education.

If you don't like this evolutionary based explanation, please explain why a god would create such an insect.

It explores the evolutionary basis for nighttime fears and discusses why kids are biologically unprepared to handle nighttime fears on their own.

Ironically, most of the research into the evolutionary basis of language has focused so far on a single function — speech perception — which is unique to humans, and thus evolutionary precursors are hard, if not impossible, to identify.

«The phenomenon, which likely has an evolutionary basis, may be more common than we realize.»

People differ from rats in many ways, but the study supports a growing body of evidence that there's an evolutionary basis for helpful behavior, independent of culture or upbringing, Mason says.

Langergraber adds that such behavior might serve as an evolutionary basis for human cooperation within huge, diverse communities.

These results might suggest an evolutionary basis to contagious itching, The Guardian writes.

To understand the evolutionary basis for this interlude, Griffith recently led a study of gene activity in a marsupial, the gray short - tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica).

Jim A.C. Everett, Oxford PhD student and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University, worked with Molly Crockett from Oxford and David Pizarro from Cornell University to test whether our default reliance on moral rules has an evolutionary basis.

«Claiming an evolutionary basis to sexual behavior based on one study trivializes the rich complexity of human behavior,» says Barry Komisaruk, a behavioral neuroscientist at Rutgers University, Newark, in New Jersey.

According to Watkins and Jones, these general social preferences may have an evolutionary basis.

But his career has been diverse and full, so that reading this fascinating book, we learn about the patterning of dinosaur feathers, consider the evolutionary basis of the human female orgasm, the tyranny of academic patriarchy, and the corkscrewed enormity of a duck's penis.

Perhaps some mental disorders have an evolutionary basis in the same physical fear mechanisms that cause animals like chickens to freak out in the presence of predators.

It's evolutionary based on not knowing when the next meal will come and wanting to store fat in case we ever need it.

Very recently, I was exposed to the harsh reality of modern pseudomedicine (i.e., medicine that has no scientific / evolutionary basis).

Demystifying the evolutionary bases behind such a powerful part of human life thus became Fisher's express objective.

In this paper James explores the evolutionary basis of each of these roots.

These standards of beauty appear to be largely universal; and being that people of all cultures exhibit the same preferences, it suggests that there is an evolutionary basis to attraction.

Further, he provides us with extremely reasonable ideas about the evolutionary basis for the development of each of these emotional circuits.

Bowlby (1969, 1988) proposed that there is an evolutionary basis to attachment, which allows people to perceive and respond to the social environment in an efficient way.

His areas of special expertise include the effects of day care, parent - child relations during the infancy and early childhood years, the transition to parenthood, the etiology of child maltreatment and the evolutionary basis of parent and child functioning.