Sentences with phrase «evolutionary purpose»

The antibacterial compounds in honey and royal jelly exist for evolutionary purposes, to keep the food fresh.

If we are using neural systems whose evolutionary purpose was to find things like food, we reach a point rather quickly where the numbers no longer matter.

It remains unclear what evolutionary purpose is served by such skewed sex ratios.

Laughter has long been viewed as a so - called luxury reflex, one that serves no obvious evolutionary purpose.

What evolutionary purpose would these experiences have?

So, religion may seem anachronistic and dysfunctional today, but the blind allegiance that sustains religions has served an evolutionary purpose.

What evolutionary purpose could it serve?

Dr. Aarssen suggests that the «work hard, play hard» motivation could serve an evolutionary purpose in humans, by presenting a means to divert our attention from our own mortality.

So could it be that allergies serve an evolutionary purpose, ask Noah Palm and Ruslan Medzhitov

As such, experts have numerous theories about the chin's evolutionary purpose.

Q: I apologize if this question sounds slightly prurient: What is the evolutionary purpose of the human hymen, and do any other female mammals have such a membrane?

Rather than questioning the evolutionary purpose baldness serves in an individual (16 June, p 44), perhaps we should ask if...

Tracing the quest for sexual pleasure back to the discovery of a prehistoric, 70,000 - year - old chunk of ocher «lipstick» found lying in a South African cave, Margolis argues that the female orgasm serves an evolutionary purpose: By helping to propel sperm through the cervix, it may increase the chances of conception, and it could also cement parental bonds.

Don't tell Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal (above), but instead of having an evolutionary purpose, the pleasure of a female orgasm may be a vestige of how ovulation was induced in ancestral mammals.

These kinds of biases do serve an evolutionary purpose, many other researchers have found.

Diet reflects the evolutionary purpose of how our bodies were first designed to eat and metabolize food

Its evolutionary purpose was primarily to protect damaged tissues against further injury.

The New York Times recently summarized this research, noting that the trait may have an evolutionary purpose: «Those who are «more attuned to bad things would have been more likely to survive threats and, consequently, would have increased the probability of passing along their genes.

Evolutionary sociologists and psychologists have attempted to normalize jealousy as an emotion that has evolutionary purpose.

What are its biological origins and evolutionary purposes?

What is the evolutionary purpose of smiling?