Sentences with phrase «from evolutionary»

The drawback is that the author is coming from a evolutionary viewpoint and not a Christianworld view.

This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective; helping others get by / succeed within groups ultimately helps the group, and by extension, the species survives.

From an evolutionary perspective, the intergenerational transmission should foster the maintenance of strategies able to lead to reproduction of the species (Belsky, 2005).

One contribution of 14 to a theme issue «Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography?»

From an evolutionary perspective, however, the attachment to a romantic partner might be even more adaptive than the attachment to a sibling, possibly ensuring the direct survival of offspring and increasing direct fitness as the attachment to a romantic partner may fulfill the ultimate function to reproduce successfully (Hamilton, 1964).

From an evolutionary perspective, it is adaptive for siblings to support each other and form special bonds.

From an evolutionary perspective, attachment schemata are influenced by the caregiving style of the parents.

Weaving together insights from evolutionary biology, modern neuroscience, positive psychology, and mindfulness practices, neuropsychologist Rick Hanson claims the difficulty at the core of human experience is our perpetual struggle to overcome the negativity bias wired into our brains.

Much of the research on gender differences and romance focuses on mate selection strategies from an evolutionary psychology perspective (e.g. Buss & Schmitt 1993).

Originally developed in the middle of the 20th century from an evolutionary framework, attachment theory attempts to explain close relationship behavior across the lifespan (Bowlby, 1969, 1982).

Results are discussed from both evolutionary and life - span developmental points of view.

That's the logic of the sex difference prediction as we see it, and most scholars draw from evolutionary perspectives to generate the same prediction (e.g., work by Meltzer and Li described below).

Even so, from an evolutionary perspective, these items should not co-vary entirely by sex.

From an evolutionary perspective, these behaviours have survival value.

Passion has a strong sexual component [6], and from an evolutionary standpoint, all humans have the same capacity for sexual passion because of their biological propensity to reproduce [7].

Chapter topics range in scope from evolutionary approaches to understanding relationships, the «battle between the sexes,» cultural influences on relationships, female sexuality, personality in relationships, intimate partner violence, relationships and health, social development, and adult relationship outcomes.

Sibling rivalry originates from an evolutionary drive for resources, particularly parental attention.

From an evolutionary perspective, men's overestimations increase mating success because it gives them more chances.

A lot of research, especially from evolutionary psychology, indicates women like high status men.

Cee Lo Green's hit song «Forget You» (the Muppet performance from the Grammy's) is inspired by basic concepts from evolutionary psychology.

Thus, to answer your question, there are a lot of reasons why someone might choose to date several people at the same time, but at least for men, the desire for multiple partners might stem from an evolutionary drive.

Evolutionary psychologists call this the «paternal certainty problem» — men who have been cuckolded and are unknowingly raising a child that's not their own have failed, from an evolutionary perspective, at passing on their genes.

Though the researchers can't say that hormones caused the mate - preference changes, there's reason to think the two might be related from an evolutionary perspective.

This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, in that the hyper - vigilance may protect us from haplessly wandering into another psychological injury.

I also use principles from evolutionary psychology to examine how relational decisions and behaviors might be adaptive.

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

Again this highlighting function makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

From an evolutionary perspective, it governed the «fight or flight» reflex, associated with fear of attack.

(Similarly, the issues that divide creationists from evolutionary biology are religious, not scientific.)

The existence of this cycle and its link to tectonic movement stands to inform many disciplines, from evolutionary biology to global nutrient cycling, according to geophysicist Dietmar Müller from the University of Sydney in Australia, who wasn't involved in the new study.

Then they used inference (i.e. created knowledge) from circumstantial (e.g. outside the limited scientific domain) evidence to establish a baseline, which may be generally representative or merely an isolated sample from evolutionary processes (i.e. chaotic).

looks like it's time for the climate scientists to take a hint from the evolutionary biologists and fight stupid - petition - syndrome with something akin to Project Steve: http://ncseweb.org/taking-action/project-steve

While the exhibition takes its name from a Navajo goddess, the subtext of the exhibition develops from the evolutionary concept of the exaptive trait, a biological characteristic which, through natural selection, becomes useful in ways beyond its original purpose.

He was one of the first contemporary artists to build his career around exploring environmental issues, from evolutionary biology and genetic engineering to deforestation and climate change.

From its evolutionary and biological origins to its translatability into mathematical properties, all the works in Intervalslook to music as a key signifying element of a larger cosmology.

Rail: In 1967 you wrote: «Formalism's specificity did a good deal to clear the air and to bring the critical method closer to the anti-sentimental approach of the art, though its major drawback was a tendency to eliminate from its evolutionary systems an increasing amount of the better art being done.»

Everything from the evolutionary background of your civilization to the look of your cities is customizable.

These stones come from evolutionary stores irradiated by the legendary Pokemon Yveltal and Xerneas.

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.

In these cases, if mom cats are highly likely to be near closely related female cats, then the costs of co-mothering (from an evolutionary / fitness perspective, where the goal is to ensure your genes are passed on) are small.

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

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.

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.

The further an animal diet departs from the evolutionary diet, the more health problems are likely to develop.

It may seem strange that your garbage disposal of a dog (who seems to be able to stomach substances of even the most questionable edibility) could be lactose intolerant, but from an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense.

(Neuroscience, though it has a different focus from evolutionary psychology, is consistent with and often supports the idea discussed throughout this book that humans have two decision systems — an intuitive one and an analytical one.

But crowdfunding could be set to go from evolutionary step to revolutionary force.

Just like the standard Polo, the GTI benefits from an evolutionary restyling that's very similar to the larger Golf.

The 2012 3 - series is a refreshing break from this evolutionary tradition.

The three authors are: Howard Gardner, a cognitive psychologist best known for his theory of multiple intelligences; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a social psychologist, who writes from an evolutionary and motivational perspective, best known for discovering the psychological state called «flow»; and William Damon, a developmental psychologist who has focused on social and moral issues.