Sentences with phrase «evolutionary roots»

The finding adds to the growing evidence that friendship is an adaptation with deep evolutionary roots.

Eventually, these defenders conceded that evolutionary roots of certain cherished human cognitive abilities could indeed be found in nonhuman animals, but only in large - brained mammals, particularly in apes.

In Our Babies, Ourselves, Small writes not just as an anthropologist, wanting to observe and record human behavior and how it relates to our biological and evolutionary roots as mammals, but also from an ethnopediatrics perspective, which seeks to advise us as parents how to integrate babies» innate needs with our culture in an infant - appropriate way.

Behavioral biologist Dario Maestripieri launches from this example into a spirited, insightful narrative that explores the ways our interpersonal relationships resemble those of our primate cousins, suggesting evolutionary roots for a range of social behaviors including nepotism, cultivating friends, and climbing the corporate ladder.

If I'm confused or confounded more than 15 % of the time, then it's time to recapitulate my ancestral evolutionary roots and see where I lost alignment and radically pull some weeds.

Macrophages, which may share evolutionary roots with free - living amoebas, do virtually the same job in humans that amoebas do in the environment: they crawl around eating things.

But while her soon - to - be-released book, «The Royal Treatment: A Natural Approach to Wildly Healthy Pets,» is peppered with plenty of crazy tales of all the exotic animals she's encountered, the premise for owners of more pedestrian pets is simple: Let your pet's innate evolutionary roots dictate his care.

Counseling Marriage CounselingCouples TherapyNew Jersey Compassion and Empathy - Evolutionary Roots Dacher Keltner, the UC Berkley psychology professor and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, explains why Darwin thought compassion is humans» strongest...

«Here's some evidence that we aren't alone in the world in this, and there are evolutionary roots to our behavior.»

It is a limitation of New Thought that, like most traditions that trace their evolutionary roots in terms of the ancient Greek philosophers, it does not acknowledge the African (Kemetic) contributions to the Greek wisdom teachings.

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age is about the evolutionary roots of religious behavior.

To get a proper and adequate understanding of human freedom, one has to see man in the total context of evolution, for freedom did not start with man; it had its evolutionary roots at the infrahuman level.

This implies that cancer genes, and the mechanisms that allow tumour cells to evade apoptosis, «have deep evolutionary roots».

A call to return to our evolutionary roots; to get in sync with our metabolic design honed through eons of survival to optimize mental and physical health.

This contrasts with the idea that the evolutionary roots of most modern groups go back long before the dinosaur extinction.

The sequencing of genomes of 48 bird species explains the evolutionary roots of vocalization and could offer insight into human speech disorders

«This is where the evolutionary roots of such behaviour originates, a crucial characteristic to manage living in a community,» states Natacha Mendes, scientist at MPI CBS and one of the first authors of the underlying study, now published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

A pair of studies suggests the evolutionary roots of humanlike cooperation can be seen in chimpanzees, albeit in rudimentary forms.

If this preference truly has evolutionary roots, it follows that male chins would be broader, on average, than female chins.

The results, Titze says, reveal the evolutionary roots of how and why voice arose.

An updated edition of Sapolsky's eminently readable treatise on the evolutionary roots, biological pathways, and health consequences of the human stress response.

That's the conclusion of a controversial new study, which reaches far back into our family tree to uncover the evolutionary roots of lethal violence among more than 1000 mammalian species.

Dr Clint Perry, another lead author of the study, added: «Despite the obvious differences between humans and other animals, understanding social learning and culture in animals holds a key to understanding the evolutionary roots of the peculiarities of social learning and culture in humans.»

Among the 31,000 plants listed in the Flora of China (FOC) are some that offer the hope of treatments for malaria and HIV, and others that illuminate the evolutionary roots of the plant kingdom.

Various people, including members of the hospital's staff, encouraged us, too, to try «natural» childbirth, as though failing to confront another human design flaw were somehow more true to our evolutionary roots.

Researchers seeking the evolutionary roots of the animal kingdom have discovered a bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, that acts as an aphrodisiac by releasing an enzyme that sends the choanoflagellate, Salpinogoeca rosetta, one of the closest living relatives of animals, into a full mating frenzy.

«Our findings, together with recent work on fish and birds, indicate that parochialism is not a uniquely human trait but it has its evolutionary roots in our closest non-human primate relatives and it is possible it may have evolved independently in different group - living species facing intense between - group competition.»

[For more on how a negative mood boosts cognition, see «Depression's Evolutionary Roots,» by Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson; Scientific American Mind, January / February 2010.]

There is an evolutionary root to the differences in how men and women seek out allies and it is driven by the need for social survival in the long run.

The answer seems to lie in the evolutionary roots of our large brains.

Researchers suspect humor has deep evolutionary roots — in 1872 Charles Darwin noticed chimpanzees giggling as they played — and many argue that the laws of natural selection can help explain the complex senses of humor we have today.

After two centuries of theories and technological advances, psychologists and other scientists have been able to look deeply into aggression's biological and evolutionary roots, as well as its consequences in society.

Moreover, because some bird lice seem to have deeper evolutionary roots than mammal lice do, the team suggests that birds — whose feathers make a good roosting place for lice — became infested first and then passed the pests on to mammals.

«In order to fully understand the human evolution and to draw conclusions on our evolutionary roots, we need to conduct phylogenetic research of our more distant relatives.»

Although there are evolutionary roots to the structure of human language, Snedeker said, it's possible that there's only one way for languages to work.

The origin of science: On the evolutionary roots of science and its implications for self - education and citizen science.

The technique, dubbed SWIF (r), could be helpful in piecing together the evolutionary history of people around the world, and in shedding light on the evolutionary roots of certain diseases and medical conditions.

The findings, published online in Cell Reports on Dec. 10, 2015, offer a glimpse into the evolutionary roots of the circadian clock and point to potential applications in synthetic biology.

In many group - living species, high - rank individuals bully their group - mates to get what they want, but their contribution is key to success in conflict with other groups, according to a study that sheds new light on the evolutionary roots of cooperation and group conflict.

The show brings together 30 artists who engage in the «search for our evolutionary roots» including Heike Baranowsky, Encyclopedia Pictura / Björk, Ryan Gander, Donna Huanca, Isaac Julien, Ana Mendieta, Ben Rivers, Guan Xiao and Anicka Yi, among others.

The GGSC's faculty director explains new discoveries revealing the evolutionary roots of human compassion.