Sentences with phrase «evolutionary standpoint»

They are completely inexplicable from an evolutionary standpoint.

To get an adequate understanding of human creativity, an evolutionary standpoint should be taken.

Highly selected breeds of any plant or animal have considerable drawbacks from an evolutionary standpoint.

From an evolutionary standpoint, our sense of taste tells us whether we ought to swallow or spit out the food we put in our mouths.

It makes sense, from an evolutionary standpoint, that we're hard - wired to default to negative thinking.

A question remains: From an evolutionary standpoint, do high maintenance women make good mothers?

From an evolutionary standpoint, mothers rely strongly on this change as they adjust to their new baby.

Progressives, and those that favor the term political science, will view man (and their institutions) as improvable, not from an evolutionary standpoint, well not exclusively, but from the explicit call for historic moral improvement in a Marxian sense.

«It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint that reproductive success would be coupled to food availability.»

«Most of our reflexes are encoded in the brainstem, but from an evolutionary standpoint, the ability for one's cortex to modify these reflexes expands one's behavioral repertoire as the circumstances require,» he said.

From an evolutionary standpoint, the research also shows that the brain can be extremely adaptive and tailor its own processes to an organism's lifestyle or surroundings, Gould said.

From an evolutionary standpoint, smelling sickness or disease has advantages.

From an evolutionary standpoint, it could be argued that some forms of apparent altruism help us to build alliances and improve our standing on the social ladder, but what about the times we overdo cooperation?

Raising someone else's child seems to make no sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

From an evolutionary standpoint, biases make perfect sense.

From an evolutionary standpoint, the Sup35 condensates are really interesting, since they are conserved among distantly related yeast that diverged almost 400 million years ago.

From an evolutionary standpoint, helping others makes sense if all the migrants are related.

From an evolutionary standpoint, this capability has been a valuable survival asset as an early - warning system to attract your attention — whether to detect prey, predator or mate (all of which usually move, unlike stones and trees).

From an evolutionary standpoint, this makes sense.

«If you produce a really, really good son, he can produce a lot of offspring,» Lummaa notes — the best outcome from an evolutionary standpoint.

From an evolutionary standpoint, he adds, «comparisons of the gene in humans to those in chimpanzees and other primates... could add to our understanding of how human language evolved.

That's pretty much the recipe for success from an evolutionary standpoint, and it also provides evidence as to how nurture might shape an underlying nature.

From an evolutionary standpoint there is no reason why we didn't start agriculture during the last interglacial.

From an evolutionary standpoint, Mr. Corballis argues, the gestural theory has several advantages.

From an evolutionary standpoint, passenger pigeon de-extinction creates a new lineage of life: a lineage originating from the band - tailed pigeon but carrying the genes of the extinct passenger pigeon, very similar to hybridization.

There has been a great deal of research showing how sleep helps consolidate memories and repair the body, yet many scientists believe that these actions do not fully explain the underlying purpose of sleep, particularly from an evolutionary standpoint.

The answer is simple: We are biologically wired to seek shelter, and from an evolutionary standpoint, we feel safe inside and like we're in danger when we're outside.

From an evolutionary standpoint, that's odd.

From an evolutionary standpoint, these satiety mechanism makes a lot of sense.

It is sometimes useful to consider things from an evolutionary standpoint.

It doesn't even make sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

From an evolutionary standpoint, fat kept us alive during tough times.

Ten thousand years may sound like a lot of time but in the grand scheme of things, from an evolutionary standpoint, it's not that much time.

But if you look at this from an ancestral health or an evolutionary standpoint, there were certainly periods of time where the human body has been exposed for the past thousands of years.

Meanwhile your recommendations are based on healthy people, be it from an evolutionary standpoint, a post digestion vista, or be it the breast milk paradigm.

From an evolutionary standpoint, pups have sharp teeth to compensate for their lack of strong jaws, and they allow them to tear up the first meat samples the mother dog carried to the den.

From an evolutionary standpoint, these distress whines had an important function as they helped mother dog locate the stranded puppies.This whining is then reinforced from getting mom's attention.

A reliance on motion makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

Cats from an evolutionary standpoint, are descended from solitary creatures that, beyond the initial rearing of mother and kittens in a litter, did not tend to form strong bonds to one another, and so many people think of cats as aloof loners that can really just take us or leave us.

From an evolutionary standpoint, in the wild, having a short window of time for accepting new things makes a lot of survival sense.

This is because, in the wild, dogs had sufficient intake of salt from the meat they ate; therefore, from an evolutionary standpoint, they didn't need taste receptors for the appreciation of salty foods.

From an evolutionary standpoint, passenger pigeon de-extinction creates a new lineage of life: a lineage originating from the band - tailed pigeon but carrying the genes of the extinct passenger pigeon, very similar to hybridization.

Again this highlighting function makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

«From an evolutionary standpoint, Android is a platform that enables us to springboard into something else,» he said.