Sentences with phrase «in brain evolution»

Such dramatic effects on brain size and function are unlikely in human carriers of BRCA1 mutations, the authors of the study note, but they propose the findings could shed light on the gene's role in brain evolution.

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We don't know how it is grounded in brain activity, nor whether it is an emergent capacity of the evolution of organisms at all, so we can't possibly know whether it is bound to emerge from the evolution of other physical systems.

A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you think we came from), and the human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.

Or perhaps it is actually something evolution put in our brains to be able to perceive an actual «something» that exists.

It was claimed that the mind which meditates the concept of evolution profoundly will find that nothing is left uncounted for... This can be done, the nervous system organised into the brain, the functions of the glands, the influence of the subconscious mind etc., all this and anything else one cares to add in qualification can take over the role of the so - called «spiritual in the personality of man.

your brain is relatvely soo simple and therefore its comprehension is also very limited, you believe in evolution so religion itself is an evolutionary process.Even atheism also evolved, The arguments today is just part of the evolutionary process of change through dialectecal methods.The moment humans begin to understand and appreciate the dialectics then the solution to the problems argued is near.

The authors discuss the evolution of the human brain, the importance of language, and compare human intelligence to that found in other animals.

consciousness is present in all matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level of existence varies with evolution, highest is that of living things, at the top is us humans because of the biological nature of our existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the highest level of complexity

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

What I find disappointing is that grown adults can see that after centuries of evolution, in which we have grown taller on the average, our brains have enlarged, and technology has altered our everyday way of life... can sit back and say stupid stuff like that.

Evolution is not good for our children - it teaches them that they are no more than monkey - brains, when in truth, each one was lovingly constructed by a God Who needs each individual for HIS purpose, not yours.

The key to human nature therefore lies in both the organic inheritance of evolution through the brain, which is instinct with natural law, harmonic order and finely tuned mutual balance, and in the free, dynamic seeking of truth and values and their free administration by the directly created spirit.

[14] Nonetheless he thinks that the rational soul began to be when the brain reached a certain «degree in complexity» (through evolution).

And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.

While it is evident to science that there is a functional «teleonomy» or machine - like purposiveness in individual organisms (for example, the fish's eye is constructed so as to enable it to see under water, the heart toward pumping blood, the human brain toward problem - solving, etc.), still there is no hard evidence that life itself, terrestrial evolution or the universe as a whole has any overarching meaning.

The accounts of evolution «from the Big Bang to the Big Brain» are essentially narrative in form.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Dr. J. A. Hadfield, one of the most distinguished psychologists of my generation, in an essay on The Mind and the Brain argues on a scientific basis «that in the course of evolution the mind shows an ever - increasing tendency to free itself from physical control and, breaking loose from its bonds, to assert its independence and live a life undetermined except by the laws of its own nature.»

In the synthesis of philosophy and science presented by Faith, the evolution of the human brain at a critical juncture, the first homo sapiens, requires an external principle of control, one not determined by material forces, but controlling and directing them.

a It seems in the first place that, anatomically, a gradual evolution of the brain can be discerned during the earliest phases of our phylogenesis.

At the summit of material animal evolution is a proto - human, but the next stage of complexity in brain function would be out of kilter with the natural environment since it is now too powerful to be subject to the ULCD from the material environment alone.

By summing up this spontaneity (making its successive moments simultaneous) sufficient energy could be accumulated and released to influence the «hair - trigger» behavioral mechanisms of the brain.23 A similar explanation is available to Bergson to account for the manner in which the vital impetus could influence evolution,

Millions and millions of years of evolution have made sure that the human brain has safeguards built in, just so it can't conjure something like this on short notice.

However, in an election being dominated by an air - headed racist with a history with bankruptcy, a brain surgeon who doesn't believe in evolution, and a female CEO (who was fired from the job) who hates women's rights, someone like George Pataki doesn't necessarily look like a bad choice, either.

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

In a study published on Nov. 16, scientists discovered that human brains exhibit more plasticity, propensity to be modeled by the environment, than chimpanzee brains and that this may have accounted for part of human evolution.

«We've known other people who have looked at genes involved in brain size evolution, tested them out and done the same kinds of experiments we've done and come up dry.»

While Schwartz believes in evolution, he says that the mechanism of neuroplasticity, which changes the shape of our brains, has likely shaped human evolution, too.

The FOXP2 gene is thought to have played a role in the evolution of the human brain and the development of language.

It turns out the evolution of our complex brain has come at a price: Sometimes we end up with a mental traffic jam in there.

Researchers hypothesize that the technological leap was driven by a cognitive leap, an evolution in brain wiring.

In this sense, Damasio's career mirrors the evolution of the brain sciences, which no longer focus exclusively on the microscopic tanglings of neurons and have made steady inroads into a number of fields like economics, sociology, literary theory, and political science.

Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution.

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most important questions in the story of our origins.

«Paleo diet: Big brains needed carbs: Importance of dietary carbohydrate in human evolution.»

«Maybe the invention of this new type of stem cell was important in driving brain evolution,» says Mueller.

«This connection between an innate call and the activity of a brain area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution of songbirds, the role of the song area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator of the study.

It underscores the importance of developing large brains in early human evolution, Simpson says.

Further studies of casts of the inner braincase, which show impressions from surface features of the brain, may help clarify N. alesi's position in ape evolution, Nengo says.

This relationship between unlearned calls and an area of the brain responsible for learned vocalisations is important for understanding the evolution of song learning in songbirds.

Among other uses, oVert will «open new doors» for understanding brain evolution in hard - to - find species, predicts Kara Yopak of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, the neuroanatomy adviser to the project.

If our results are confirmed in future studies, it would be a unique demonstration of convergent evolution of intelligence, involving the same neurotransmitter receptors despite the widely different brain structures of birds and mammals.»

Describing himself as a «neuro - ethologist,» Brockmann hopes that the comparative studies on three species native to India — A. cerana, A. dorsata, and A. florea — will help him understand the evolution of dance communication and identify the changes in the brain that accompanied the changes in behavior.

The speculation, in an article on the evolution of our brains, that a dinosaur or bird could have evolved considerable...

We know from comparative studies in primates that this part of the brain became highly specialized during hominin evolution.

Experts have long suspected that complex social interaction drove the evolution of large brains in humans.

«I was expecting to find that a few genes would be evolving rapidly, while probably the overall distribution would be changing at about the same rate among all the primates, but instead we saw that the brain's gene evolution in the human lineage has actually slowed down,» Wu says.

«This is a helpful first step that builds off of other important previous work and is a natural step in the evolution of our understanding of fibromyalgia as a brain disorder» said López - Solà.

Thus they may have played roles in the evolution of humans» large brains and speech.