Sentences with phrase «evolutionary thinking about»

This was the phase of evolutionary thinking about which the term neo-Darwinist was first used.

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You are the lower rung of the evolutionary ladder squabbling on a web site about things you think is complicated but are plain and simple!

Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read about and understood many things about evolutionary biology and paleontology».

At the very least, substantial interaction between Christian theology and evolutionary biology is prompting new metaphors and new ways of thinking about God.

I believe that the correct context for thinking about God is the evolutionary context, that is, the world in process.

The change that has come about in theologies that partake of creative and emergent evolution can be described in this way: since mechanism is no longer the base of their evolutionary thinking, idealism is no longer essential as a strategy of thought in resolving the tension between science and faith.

The variety of their thought about Jesus will be apparent but so also will be their agreement that the person and action of Jesus is of importance in any thorough - going metaphysical system and above all in such a scheme as evolutionary or process views of the world demand.

@Colin & others I'm not going to argue your claim that orientation is genetic because I think there is some truth to it, however, I have questions about the evolutionary shift to growing numbers of LGBTs.

For the evolutionary paradigm has come to dominate our ways of thinking about the world.

Scientists do not have clear, provable theories to describe the evolution of all species in existence, and everything about the earth (if you think I'm wrong on this point, you either live in a box or you're delusional), but we do not throw out evolutionary theory merely because it is incomplete.

As biology, for example, moves forward on its frontier at the molecular level, religion has a new way opened up for it also, just as evolutionary biology opened up a whole new province for religious thinking about creation.

In that sermon Sir Edwyn remarked in effect that while the Lady Margaret Professor (Dr Bethune - Baker) was urging that the task of theology was to bring about a reconciliation of evolution and faith and to re-state faith in terms congruent with such evolutionary ideas, in his (Hoskyns») opinion the theologian's task was precisely the opposite: it was to show the inadequacy of such ideas and to make clear the incongruity between evolutionary thought and Christian faith.

«When you think about babies as evolutionary beings, you have to remember that for the bulk of our time on the planet, to not be sleeping with your parent meant to be in a perilous situation,» explains Wheeler.

- Tracy Cassels of Evolutionary Parenting The problem comes when there are additional «beat myself up about it» and «think and rethink and think some more about how terrible I am» responses to guilt.

When thinking about childhood trauma, we need to be aware that throughout our evolutionary history, danger hasn't only come from predators and illness — it has also come from parents.

Tomori notes that McKenna and Gettler ask us to think about nighttime breastfeeding and infant sleep as a unit, and in an evolutionary context.

If you think about separation anxiety in evolutionary terms, it makes sense: A defenseless baby would naturally get upset over being taken away from the person who protects and cares for him.

When we think about doubts over evolutionary science, we tend to think of the highly politicised views of young Earth creationists in the US.

But as I followed the citation trail and actually started looking at the primary studies that were cited in support of those conclusions — and thinking seriously about the methods that had been employed in the studies, the presuppositions behind them, and whether there were alternative evolutionary hypotheses for the things studied that were not in fact being ruled out by the experiments — I began to find that it wasn't all that convincing.

When you talk about the evolutionary intelligence of bacteria, it almost sounds like you think of them as conscious beings.

And if my book can have any positive effect I would hope it would be to prompt people to think about alternative hypotheses and different ways in which evolutionary theory might inform psychology.

Gatenby began thinking about cancer as an evolutionary problem in the early 1990s, when he was working at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We are the sole evolutionary remnant of a big family: in a new book, Ian Tattersall wonders why thinking about our dead cousins makes us so uncomfortable

But when he began thinking about cancer from an evolutionary perspective, the problem became tractable again, he says.

Mark Pagel, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Reading in England, doesn't consider himself a scientist, just a person thinking about the world.

«If you think about our evolutionary ancestors, you could imagine some kind of singing ritual to bond groups together very quickly so they could then take part in some sort of collective activity like hunting,» Pearce says.

Project co-leader Professor Claire Spottiswoode, of the University of Cape Town and the University of Cambridge, added: «We tend to think about camouflage as something that involves gradual evolutionary change in appearance — we don't often think of it as a matter of individual animal behaviour.

Steve: So, what we are talking about here is, a traditional journalist might think that his or her job is to quote the evolutionary biologist, quote the creationist and let the reader decide, whereas the blogger can say, «Oh, by the way, this stuff that you're hearing from the creationist is nonsense.»

«We also need to think about the surrounding ecological context of the evolutionary process.»

«Sex is one of those subjects that everybody thinks they know about,» says Elisabeth Lloyd, a philosopher at the University of California at Berkeley who's writing a book about bias in evolutionary theories about female sexuality.

The Morocco fossils indicate that humankind's emergence involved populations across much of Africa, and started about 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Jean - Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

At the time this was probably rather useless genomic variation, but has now become incredibly beneficial millions of years later when the opportunity for major adaptive radiations arose, changing the way we think about evolutionary processes.»

The next time you carve a pumpkin, take a moment to think about the curious evolutionary path it took to get here, and how breeders, now armed with the genome sequence, will be better able to improve the pumpkin to help feed millions around the world.

For a high - performing lean - body experience, I recommend learning the nutritional benefits of the foods you consume, finding ways to buy local, experimenting with Paleo and Primal principles, reading more about evolutionary diets, hunter - gatherers and thinking about channeling some «Caveman Mindset» of your own.

I think there's something to the «eat for your type» diets... there's another book out there «Death by Food Pyramid» that talks about the differences in ancestry leading to evolutionary variances in things like salivary amylase (AMY1 copies), which directly effect a person's ability to digest starch.

When you really think about it, it is a bit ridiculous that a group of people that claims to take an evolutionary approach to life shows little understanding of evolution.

In thinking about the evolutionary benefit of each individual having a different metabolism, with different mental affect resulting from the exact same diet, I conclude that this variability is very important to group fitness / survival.

Not only does it illuminate the evolutionary icon most people think of as A Beard, it's arguably the most insightful film about writing since Adaptation.

EDUTOPIA: Can you talk about your thoughts on ADHD and the evolutionary need for human variability — the importance of having a wide range of skills in human populations?

Most customers won't even bother thinking about the evolutionary console when there is a cheaper base console on the market and the majority upgrading to a Neo or 1.5 will be enthusiasts who want to pay more for better graphics.

Combine this with the ever changing landscape of the gaming world and the fast pace of smartphone and PC iteration and it's clear to see why Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are thinking about evolutionary consoles as the future.

As for the why: «Actually, I think it's a great way to teach kids about evolutionary biology and developmental biology and all sorts of things,» Horner says in his talk.

Thinking about anxiety as an evolutionary response is helpful, as we often try to understand our anxiety from a logical place.

Prof A explained that he had heard all the fuss about blockchains but was unsure whether it was revolutionary or evolutionary (I think the word disruptive was also used).

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