Sentences with phrase «for evolutionary purposes»

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

Clearly, while fit for evolutionary purpose, it wasn't physiologically consistently reliable and this led to the dreadful death rates amongst mothers and infants for so much of human existence — birth and then early infancy were incredibly risky.

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For purposes of brevity, let us simply take up the problem of medieval painting and sculpture, and ask if God - images here play a significant role, and, more particularly, ask if we can here discover a significant relation between God - images and Christ - images, a relation reflecting a uniquely Christian apprehension of the evolutionary movement and transformation of the divine process.

Species may have vast potential for guidance and mental process but they lack any imminent [sic] purpose or guidance from agents beyond their immediate environment or even an evolutionary goal toward which their molecular architecture automatically steers them.9

Process - relational thinkers here find scientific backing for their contention that there is an element of freedom, mentality, purpose in anything actual at all, and that needs to be the case in a consistently evolutionary view where the complex forms of life emerge from the simple.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

Anyway RM - in answer to your question, a meme is a belief or attitude or a form of social behaviour which exists for no obvious genetic purpose, brings no evolutionary advantage, but nevertheless spreads throughout society with alarming rapidity.

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.

This anorexic effect might be attributed to the evolutionary purpose of seeking for nutrients in absence of food.

Yes, Grimlock and the Combaticons are new, but for all practical purposes they're just multimedia window dressing on an otherwise evolutionary, not revolutionary, title.

For almost everyone, romantic love is a highly rewarding experience, which serves a crucial evolutionary purpose, namely, the maintenance and perpetuation of the species.