Sentences with phrase «evolutionary sense»

I suppose this makes some sort of evolutionary sense, in that periods of sleep deprivation might be associated with environmental pressures on early humans and therefore pressure to eat to useful?

The connections make evolutionary sense, because it could be an advantage to signal the next generation whether food is plentiful or scarce.

It makes evolutionary sense for females to protect their young relatives, and for a mother to babysit in return for its own calf's protection.

The findings make evolutionary sense because baby boys are typically 100 grams heavier than baby girls, so female mammals may have evolved ways to favour production of boys when resources are plentiful.

Unfair, it may be, but it makes good evolutionary sense.

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.

I share Rothko's affinity for the early, primal evolutionary sense of humanness.

This makes evolutionary sense when we consider that men often desire physical attractiveness in a long - term partner (making it an important indicator of a woman's mate value) and women often desire social status in a long - term partner (making it an important indicator of a man's mate value).3

It might sound like an airy - fairy principle of feng shui, but the idea that, if at all possible, you should keep your door within your field of vision actually makes a strange sort of evolutionary sense.

This makes perfect evolutionary sense.

Charles Darwin noticed that animal teamwork could make evolutionary sense for groups, but Wright's research shows that joint efforts can pay off even in situations that emphasize the role of individual success.

These options for the Christian life seem to fall outside development in an evolutionary sense.

We seem to be hard - wired in an evolutionary sense to accept the pronouncements of group leaders, rather than to think rationally.

One could argue that we are geared towards (in an evolutionary sense) towards compassion and companionship, that we have evolved to value one another.

The spirit of Democracy is identified with the «evolutionary sense» or «the sense of species» — signifying, in the case of Man, not merely the instinct for permanence through propagation, but also a will to grow through the organized arrangement of the species upon itself — i.e. super-reflection.

We are all, in an evolutionary sense, predisposed to becoming diabetic.

In an interview with Romper, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and founder of Oasis Lactation Services, Danielle Downs Spradlin, says that she isn't aware of any research that shows maternal immunity being improved by lactation, however she says it would make evolutionary sense.

The observations could make some evolutionary sense if we accept the idea that men with lower testosterone levels are more likely to be monogamous with their partner and care for children.

This makes a lot of evolutionary sense, says Mennella.

Swapping this kind of information isn't rocket science, but it's important in an evolutionary sense.

Meeting other mums in person and online through LLL, reading lots to understand how good, natural and normal in an evolutionary sense breastfeeding is, even if it's not the cultural «norm,» has really helped me.

Both parents want (in an evolutionary sense) to pass on their genes, but that's all they really agree on.

Which makes evolutionary sense.

People still debate whether humans are genuinely altruistic by nature, but if we are, most agree it doesn't make evolutionary sense

G: It's exactly the same kind of thing, except that with the chimps, I think the behavior really is, in an evolutionary sense, to protect resources for their young.

First impressions based on the face can badly mislead us, even though that seems to make no evolutionary sense.

Paradoxical as it may seem, OIH makes evolutionary sense.

This view of the protein makes both biological and evolutionary sense, Campfield says, because starvation is a greater threat to most organisms than are the long - term health effects of obesity.

Theoretical biologists demonstrate how an aggressive personality might make evolutionary sense

Holekamp and Smale say that the ability of spotted hyenas to manipulate the sex ratio of their offspring makes evolutionary sense.

In the evolutionary sense, this could represent the emergence of a new species — Homo singularity?

3) In an evolutionary sense, the role of plant miRNAs in regulating honeybee development may offer valuable hints for our understanding of cross-kingdom interaction and co-evolution.

It may make evolutionary sense, says Laurent Brondel at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France.

For us, this progression makes evolutionary sense: Since we spend almost twodecades raising children, it behooves us to finish producing them whilewe're still young.

Finding it in rats, though, erases the need for some awkward explanation of our ability and «makes evolutionary sense.»

If prey gain protection by colors alone, then it doesn't make evolutionary sense to expend additional energy developing the poison.»

It makes evolutionary sense that decisions about personality should happen fast, says McAleer.

The discovery that this seems to happen in mice (see main story) makes evolutionary sense.

Washington says the findings of asymmetrical sound processing in both human and bat brains make evolutionary sense.

This moblike mentality makes evolutionary sense, the group says, since doing what everyone else is doing is usually a good way to avoid hidden dangers.

The speed with which the students made their judgments makes evolutionary sense, McAleer says.

«It makes evolutionary sense that the immune system would respond aggressively only when it's really needed,» says Mark Schaller, a psychologist and co-author of the study.

That would make evolutionary sense, Feldmeier says.

The finding made some evolutionary sense.

This makes evolutionary sense, says Devin Wahl at the University of Sydney.